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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS, currently a high school freshman, has been all in on coding for a long time. He's regularly engaged in high-level chats with the guy who wrote Python, has had his projects featured in podcasts and newsletters, has companies paying him to use his work, and has written a program that is part of Python's standard library. BUT, this is all he wants to do. He doesn't play sports; he participates in one extracurricular. He refused to join the coding club. His grades are good (mostly As).

Should I be tiger momming him to do more, or just let him do what he loves? He's happy (has a good group of friends and is a normal sweet kid at home), but I don't want to fall down on the job.[/quote]

Nope leave him alone.

Absolutely leave him alone.

He will major in CS and graduate and have a fantastic job and it won't matter what school he goes to either. And he has a great advantage to interviewing for these jobs as most have tests or projects that involve coding and many can not pass them because they didn't do what your kid has already done.

Mom of a similar DS. [/quote]Unless OP's kid is grinding hackerrank/leetcode/USACO, he will not be at a specific advantage in CS interviews unless he starts practicing the types of DSA interview questions they ask. There's no evidence that OP's kid has "already done" those specific types of DSA questions.[/quote]

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