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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid sounds awesome and talented.  The question is do you want him to broaden his horizons by also learning other things in high school or college?  Not sure there is a right answer but there are two different paths - he can continue to focus exclusively on coding and likely do very well, or he can go to college and have a more broad-based education, which may or may not change his path. I don’t think he needs to do other ECs for college admissions purposes.  It’s more about what kind of learning he wants to do.[/quote]

+1 To this.  I have a colleague who is probably not unlike your son — brilliant and capable of taking on very high level projects at a young age — and thus can confirm it’s absolutely possible to get a good software development job and excel in it without a college degree.  (In my colleague’s case [b]he got his job while still in college[/b] and has since finished his degree.)  The only problem with that path is that it limits what you learn somewhat.  Perhaps this isn’t a problem for people who have the absolute focus to learn so much in one subject by the time they’re teens — perhaps they will be happiest doing their one thing their whole life long.  But it would make me miserable to be stuck that way, so I would be tempted to encourage college for some suggestion of distribution credits and more diverse friends.  You know your soon best.  That being said, whichever route he/you take, it really does sound like he’ll be able to find a good job when he’s ready![/quote]It's incredibly misleading to classify this as a "job with no college" situation; being in or having graduated from college was likely a mandatory requirement for his job, one he would not have gotten had he not been in college. Internships/coops/fulltime offers while in college are incredibly commonplace; while never having attended college, not so much.[/quote]

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