Does anyone in your school program for fun/program outside of school?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Like, in my old high school, which is pretty socioeconomically advantaged, pretty much NO ONE pursued programming for fun. No one really did PHP, Perl, C++, Java, etc... outside of one's programming class. This I found interesting, perhaps since computer science careers are thought to be one of the most common white-collar careers in these days.</p>

<p>What about your school?</p>

<p>It's actually pretty amazing how many people are good in math and don't know anything about programming. That being said, they can pick it up very fast once they get used to it. </p>

<p>On the other hand, I was never socialized within my high school, so I may have just been ignorant.</p>

<p>If my statement has some merit to it with respect to other high schools, I suppose that could be one reason why the US Computing Olympiad isn't particularly popular (compared to the other olympiads).</p>

<p>And has anyone at your school actually set up forums of their own? And programmed them? (not just by using Ezboard/Invisionfree/etc). Actually though, someone at my school did set up forums, though I'm unsure whether she actually programmed them or merely used an easy-to-set-up board</p>

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<p>I took a class once on C++, but never really got in to it. I do know a guy who is very knowledgeable in programming and he has his own forum and wesbite which he did all the programming by himself.</p>

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<p>my dad is an exec at Adobe, so i've always been exposed to programming. </p>

<p>i've made simple stuff like tetris/ solitaire/ little games in AP CompSci AB, but there are a lot of people who are way better than me, and they've gone on to program complicated interfaces, their own programming languages, etc. </p>

<p>my dad was a chem major in college, but he developed a bunch of his own stuff and decided to do computer science related work. all of the interns they get at Adobe are wicked skilled, so there are a lot of people out there who like programming for fun. </p>

<p>but then again i live in the Bay Area, everyone here knows at least basic Java</p>

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<p>Yes, I program to save the world. Except this *****y grad student keeps stealing my algorithms, so now I'm a lot more reluctant to.</p>

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<p>I program in C\C++ and Python in my spare spare spare time.</p>