r/Coding_for_Teens

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is doing well. As a solo programmer, I had always been limited to the ability of my skills, as well as the amount of time I had. However, this also limited my ability to learn teamwork.

Which is why, we are now creating a new team where we can

* Connect and network with each other
* Learn teamwork and skills from each other
* Build an exciting product together.

We are currently building indie team that is passionate and motivated in creating something unique while connecting to others and learning new skills. In fact, we already have 6 members too, and are currently deciding the first project to get started on. If you have any ideas, we are all ears.

If you are not an expert, don’t worry, as we welcome anyone that have some experience in coding. It doesn’t have to be too much, but at least you needed to know what you are talking about and touched some codes before. However, this group are limited to teens that are interested in building something together through.

For those interested, fill up this form today and we will contact you if we believe you are the perfect fit: https://forms.gle/2VHGv7sdhEzATUEs5

Come fast through, as the chance for joining is reducing every single minute. Let’s create something exciting together.

Many people jump to Claude or any other AI generative tool when being assigned to make a final project for a course. They search things like: “Give me 10 project ideas I can do for course X.” Or they literally say to Claude Code: “Build me a project that solves a problem using X course.” They could also ask AI to give them a step-by-step guide or a template to follow.

Tbh, I was one of them too. While it was indeed faster, it was never really efficient. I felt like I never truly coded anything, even if I wrote some lines of code, even if I helped the AI think about what kind of features I wanted my project to have.

But the thing is, I never knew another way. I started learning to code during a time where AI became the first thing you ask before Google or Stack Overflow. And I don’t blame anyone for that because we never really learned another way.

During an AI Agentic Flow hackathon I did, I got in contact with one of my teammates who had the privilege of learning to code before AI became an accessible or everyday thing. And he gave me one of the greatest pieces of advice:

• Use the documentation of the tool you want to use whenever you are stuck instead of asking GPT to solve everything for you, because you’ll never learn how to solve things that way. Use Google too and visit websites, people definitely had the same problem before.
• Use templates/methodologies of operation (not code templates, but rather project structure templates) when making a new project. Example: for machine learning, the ones in madewithml.com or mlops-guide.github.io.
• Use GitHub to get inspired first. Although, I still think that training your brain to find an idea yourself is better than copying other people’s ideas because you train your brain to analyze needs/problems in life and try to come up with solutions for them. Then, if you find your idea somewhere else, you can still get intel from their project, learn from their mistakes, or understand the problems they faced. This way, you can avoid those issues, grow more through your project, and add your own valeur ajoutée to the solution.
• And finally: people should start using platforms like Stack Overflow, Reddit, Quora… more. I know it is easier to ask a machine a “dumb” question instead of asking the internet because it will never ridicule you for it. But everybody started from those “dumb” questions, so nobody should judge anyone for their learning journey, but rather guide them or simply just shut up.

Hi everyone! We are an FLL team and we built a web-based game called SuperRobots to teach programming logic like loops and conditionals. It features an AST interpreter and has 30 levels with breakables, teleporters, and logic puzzles. Check it out at https://superrobots.org/ and let us know what you think!