Find a programming class in town for Jake, tell him that although I know almost nothing if he makes something and he likes it he can show it to me.

The college advising function during October consists mostly of suggesting you take the SAT or ACT and asking your parents to fill out the FAFSA, the free application for student financial aid. If you can get registered for a college entrance exam and
have completed the FAFSA when we meet in November I will be really pleased. It is your better interest to do so as universities use early FAFSAs to apportion state aid, and taking a college entrance exam now gives you the opportunity to take it again.
Universities, or at least UO gives multi year scholarships based on university entrance exam scores. I could find out if this is true of OSU as well.

Have fun thinking of new computer programs even if they are big

Jake, you can get a computer science degree at many different Oregon universities. Mention western states tuition exchange and the ability to spend a quarter or more at a California university to utilize their computer career recruitment career center
opportunities and internships for a really wide range of possible activities and particularly high earnings.

If he likes math suggest coding scripting in MATLAB for really motivating visuals.

There is a programming immersion course called a computer bootcamp, some are complimentary, if Jake is willing to travel then he can go to one.

It is just an opinion but at university sometimes the sequence i perceive is classes in a major start after general university requirements. If you are avid you can take some CS classes early but some require two or three math classes first, you can use
those preceding quarters to learn and practice programming anyway.

Jake, if you like driving technology I suggest simple microcontrollers that go from kits to do your own thing like rasberry pi. Also Make magazine has projects, and a project like take apart a video game controller then send the buttons voltage pulses or
contacts faster than yourfingers can move, then for fun see what it does at software. That is just one output of a frequency from the microcontroller raspberry pi.

Mention that sequential internships, even immediately after freshman year, raise earnings and are numerically linked to full voluntary employment.

Jake, you can go to any city in the US and almost any city in the world and get employed very rapidly, computer science graduates in Seattle (2018) earn $120,000 per year median, and if you like you can specialize to earn more. There are numerically
based lists of things like "optimal places in America' you can look at.

Liking computer science is really the thing. But mention the outsourcing with his personal integration thing.

The sites Quora and stackexchange have a CS programmer community and will assist in being excited with new things and generally feeling encouraged.

Have Jake compare caffeinated and non caffeinated SAT practice tests, mention gradual multihour dose caffeine pills and nootropics. A few, or a bunch of extra SAT points can give him 1-3k instant scholarship money every year he is at university and you
can retake the SAT

Bring up transhumanism

Perhaps mention transparent mouse tracking software at website software

He can sit in at a programming course at the local post high school educational institution and I will be glad to pick up his cab fare

Mention that Microsoft thing where you build a phone app using code and, perhaps, visual modules that you can actually make then use on your own phone. I do not know but i think building a flashlight in an afternoon is possible, so how about a flashlight
that turns on when you speak?

Different people have different personalities but I have seen one page of code, in perl, a webcrawler that could be rapidly modified to search things that Google and Bing cannot, like regular expressions or deep page occurrences of "attractive young
woman".

Jake could modify another script or write his own to automatically parse (scan) each of the first 30k pages of a search engine like bing or Google to find a regular expression match or a word like superfantabulous. Social networking sites can also be
parsed so perhaps there is a way to find "north bend" and "coos bay" along with "amazing" then make an array (list) of all the URLs that contain that, optionally he can use a library to cycle through the list and open browser tabs to each of them in
batches.

Suggest he build his own PC.

Mention how liking computers is awesome, a CS degree is better, but if he learns to program well Google and Microsoft hire people without degrees.

Mention the ASPIRE program sequence is FAFSA, SAT, applications, scholarships, and these sometimes have an "the earlier the better" aspect, I think there are a lot of technology scholarships.

Ask Jake to read these notes first for unmediated comprehension, then bring them up as conversation

Jmlang0227@nbend.k12.or.us

Scholarships u Minnesota, u Wisconsin, Ohio state, u michican, Georgia tech, Stanford scholarships

Identify phone app maker

Tues Nov 5 at noon

Find CS tutor swocc professor, 3.5 or better, personable humble student, craigslist

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