Young Developer -- Teen Coding/Design Community

[Splatzone]

Since I've never seen a forum dedicated to teenage programming, I thought I'd make one.

Here it is!

[url=http://young-developer.com/]Young Developer[/url]!

We're a very young forum, but we have a growing memberbase of teenage programmers and designers (A few Facepunchers too)

There's a strong bias toward web development right now, but we're changing our focus to the slightly more broad niche of teenage coding (all types).

We're also running [url=http://young-developer.com/thread-629.html]a competition[/url] to win a variety of real-life prizes.

Come by sometime :)

I'd also love to hear any critique you may have.

[url]http://young-developer.com[/url]

[raccoon12]

Sweet

[Shoar]

Nice.

[tankkiller]

Horrible name, it's probably going to be flooded with pedophiles if the site gets popular enough.

Try a different name, like Beginning Developer(s) or something.

[Splatzone]

Yeah. Pen Island much?

[Grayron]

It needs a software development section. (C++, Java, Python, etc.)

[Splatzone]

I'm changing the forums tomorrow. As I said, we're shifting the focus away from web development.

Thanks for checking it out :)

[high6]

[QUOTE=Splatzone;15669698]We're also running [url=http://young-developer.com/thread-629.html]a competition[/url] to win a variety of real-life prizes.[/QUOTE]

Very messy post! Took me a few minutes just to find out what it was about.

[Cathbadh]

Teenage programming forum? Is that like a bunch of people discussing which different bad words that you can spell with a calculator turned upside down?

But in all seriousness, it could really go really well, or turn into a shit-hole. At that age, programming experience varies greatly from person to person, and I know how jealous and unreasonable kids that age can get.

[Grayron]

Also: That's kind of a stupid contest. The first person to 150 posts?
Be prepared for tons of shitposting.

[compwhiziitothe]

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/6UT4bn4.png[/img]

Nice admin buttons.

[Sporbie]

I just scanned through the C++ thread in there. My god the stupidity.

[Jallen]

Is this like little lamplight where we get kicked out and forced to go to the big people forum when we grow up?

[Splatzone]

Meh, it's an experiment.

@high

It worked nonetheless :D

@compwhizz

Hehe. Blame Advil0 for that...

@Jallen

What? The forum isn't [i]restricted[/i] to teenagers, but that's the main focus. I'm hardly going to start banning folk when they "grow up".

[high6]

[QUOTE=Splatzone;15673178]Meh, it's an experiment.

@high

It worked nonetheless :D

@compwhizz

Hehe. Blame Advil0 for that...

@Jallen

What? The forum isn't [i]restricted[/i] to teenagers, but that's the main focus. I'm hardly going to start banning folk when they "grow up".[/QUOTE]

Um... No it doesn't...

[AwesomeDino]

Good luck managing everything.

[henrikb4]

Interesting, but I like it here on the programming section.

[TehDoomCat]

[QUOTE=tankkiller;15669893]Horrible name, it's probably going to be flooded with pedophiles if the site gets popular enough.

Try a different name, like Beginning Developer(s) or something.[/QUOTE]

That's a horrible name.

Young Developer sounds miles better than that.

Besides, what kind of pedophile gets off over inexperienced programmers?

[jA_cOp]

[QUOTE=TehDoomCat;15674096]Besides, what kind of pedophile gets off over [highlight]inexperienced[/highlight] programmers?[/QUOTE]

Ah, delicious, little, innocent things... :love:

[Grayron]

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/0oJGMyZ6.jpg[/img]

>learn C# instead of C++, because it's more powerful
>learn C#, because it's more powerful
>C#, more powerful

:psypop:

[x0r]

C++ is easy

[iPope]

I like it, might join. Might not :P

[gparent]

[QUOTE=x0r;15675522]C++ is easy[/QUOTE]

I think it is. You don't?

[Grayron]

[QUOTE=gparent;15676201]I think it is. You don't?[/QUOTE]

Not compared to a lot of other languages.

[Ralbane]

[QUOTE=Grayron;15676285]Not compared to a lot of other languages.[/QUOTE]

its the most logical one in a lot of cases

[henrikb4]

Actually, it's a nice forum, it's like Facepunch back in 2005.

[gparent]

[QUOTE=Grayron;15676285]Not compared to a lot of other languages.[/QUOTE]

There's nothing particularly hard about C++ when compared to say, C++ or Java. There are a few quirks that a beginner may not understand (std::vector<std::vector<int>> v; giving a compile error, for instance), but the really hard stuff are things that you don't really use in your first programs anyway (multiple inheritance, template meta programming, etc.)

Of course, if you're comparing C++ to Python, it's a different story.

[noctune9]

[QUOTE=Grayron;15674315][img]http://imgkk.com/i/0oJGMyZ6.jpg[/img]

>learn C# instead of C++, because it's more powerful
>learn C#, because it's more powerful
>C#, more powerful

:psypop:[/QUOTE]

Depends on your definition of powerful.

[x0r]

[QUOTE=gparent;15676831]There's nothing particularly hard about C++ when compared to say, C++ or Java. There are a few quirks that a beginner may not understand (std::vector<std::vector<int>> v; giving a compile error, for instance), but the really hard stuff are things that you don't really use in your first programs anyway (multiple inheritance, template meta programming, etc.)

Of course, if you're comparing C++ to Python, it's a different story.[/QUOTE]

Still, not every beginner is going to know multiple inheritance, template meta programming, etc.

So it wouldn't exactly be easy.

[Ddrl46]

Im in!