Young growth, or Find me a computer club

Hello, habrasociety.

A funny incident happened just now.

In the glorious city of Ufa, where I live, such an event as UfaDevKom is periodically held , otherwise, meetings of developers at which reports are heard, all kinds of things are presented and questions are asked. Two reports per evening, tea with cookies and interesting conversations included. Yesterday, for example, Google Glass was shown and told by unity. I don’t know whether Google Glass was guilty, or just the community grew, but this time the people gathered the most motley - not only ordinary sharpers, but also a fair number of androids, javists, and, apparently, people who just wandered into the report (for nothing that pre-registered).

So this tale will not be about google’s, you need to talk about them separately (by the way, I liked the presentation, and left a burning desire to spend money somewhere), but about one of those who came to the light.

Young growth

After completing the report, a strong-looking uncle came out, introduced himself, and, taking the floor, shared the problem - they say he has a daughter (a pretty creation of about 12 years old) who is sleeping right now and sees how to become a programmer - even read a book, “Programming for Dummies "called. And the uncle himself is not a programmer even once, and so he had the idea to ask the opinion of professionals. And could the esteemed community tell me where there are any interest clubs in which this blond creature finds interest comrades? ..

In general, to be honest, he is still a skeptic, and I don’t see the point of voicing such an offer at a professional meeting - well, it’s kind of like asking the chess champion where the nearest chess section is, - therefore I proceeded to the table with cookies. But the question caught me, and so I managed to chat privately with my uncle. And the truth is - he needed something like a circle of young technicians, but for programming :-)

And now actually we get to the core of the issue. While the coffee break lasted (about 20 minutes, probably), three or four people approached my uncle with the following suggestions:

1. I can give assignments and discuss questions that a child has on Skype;
2. you can work with us in a startup, we will find something;
3. buy a book and master it.

I myself also gave free advice, but what about.

All proposals were rejected in the style of the game "yes, but ..." - which, in general, is not surprising, given the age of the child and the original intention to find a "computer club". Along the way, I realized that professional comrades never had such problems as teaching very young people (and many people themselves recently from the student / student bench).

What to do?

So the questions I have for the venerable community are as follows:

1. what would you do in a similar situation - when a child (yours or a friend) asks you to teach something that you don’t cut, and there are no such sections from the word “completely”?
2. what advice would you give this uncle what to do with the desire of the child?

The post was written regardless of this , and, taking this opportunity, I express respect to its author. Directly organize at least something similar on your own ...

PS By the way, my father has a huge respect - he didn’t just send the child to a school computer scientist, but he himself looked for some options, and chose this, though not entirely correct, but not the easiest way . Everything is ok, it’s not that we could not help him ...