The 16 year old coder, Part 1: Why My Daughter No Longer Attends Public High School

Joe Eames:

This is the first in what I intend to be a series of blogs about getting my daughter into the programming industry.

These last 12 months have been a strange adventure for myself, my wife, and our 16 year old daughter Katya.

Last year I kind of coerced my daughter into taking a Web Design class at her high school. This was her sophomore year. She was rather reluctant, but still agreed. I didn’t put too much pressure on her, but enough that she probably would have chosen a different elective without my influence. After a few months in it, she was really enjoying it and found out about a program that our school district runs where she could spend half her day in a full on web development class. She decided to apply and was accepted for her Junior year.