For a summer CS activity, have you considered a home project? The best teacher is experience, and it also makes for great resume material.
Some suggestions:
- Write an iPhone game or Minecraft mod.
- Provide him your financial information (pay stubs, credit card statements, etc) and ask him to produce a data analysis on where your money is going (makes for a great lesson in microeconomics, too), and what can be done better.
- Build and secure a home server. Implement a recovery strategy (RAID, automated backups).
Great ideas, Dude! I would have never thought of having him analyze our home finances!! (I am sure he'd have some great suggestions for spending our retirement savings�)
He has done iPhone apps and Minecraft mods, and will likely think of more he wants to do. He likes to post videos of him playing Minecraft (I know its a thing, but still trying to wrap my head around it), and he recently wrote a program to automatically smoothly pan the scene being recorded past specified guide points. Dh gave a hand with the algorithm but ds programmed and debugged the whole thing!
So yeah, a steady stream of engaging projects is great for learning. But maybe combined with a little formal instruction and contact with like minded peers�.
