My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give?
andreyf: Do what my parents did when I got suspended for "hacking":1) Get him a new computer (but with a crappy video card, if he's into gaming)2) Find him programming internships and introduce him to programmers you knowI would also add:Tell him that he isn't a real programmer unless he understands Prolog, Haskell, C, and a flavor of Lisp (Scheme/Arc), although Python might be a good first language to start with. Be prepared to spend lots of $ on books - all of these topics have books which work for different people. I would recommend:The Little Schemer series: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
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Programming in Haskell http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.htmlThese are solidly good books, there are others, but they really depend on personality.