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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,330
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-boy-8-joy-ride-cheeseburger-020336990.html
Washington (AFP) - Talk about a craving: an eight-year-old American boy drove his father's van to a McDonald's because he just had to have a cheeseburger.

The Ohio boy said he learned to drive by watching YouTube videos, the Weirton Daily Times reported on Sunday evening's adventure.

The child, at the wheel with his four-year-old sister riding shotgun, drove for about a mile and a half, stopping at red lights and letting traffic pass before he executed a left turn into the McDonald's in the town of East Palestine in eastern Ohio, the paper said.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,320
My 10 y.o. is teaching herself guitar via YouTube. It's amazing what a self-motivated child can learn on the internet -- both good and bad.

At that age, I had to either choose from the limited selection in the public library, or wait till I had enough money to buy a book. I wonder how much further and faster I would have gone had I had the internet. Or, maybe I would have been too distracted. Who knows.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,775
It's amazing what a self-motivated child can learn on the internet -- both good and bad.
I didn't learn electronics earlier because I didn't have the means. Mainly because I had no money to buy books and parts, and there was absolutely no one I knew that could tutor me. God knows how I would've performed in that area if I had spent my youth in these times.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,320
I didn't learn electronics earlier because I didn't have the means. Mainly because I had no money to buy books and parts, and there was absolutely no one I knew that could tutor me. God knows how I would've performed in that area if I had spent my youth in these times.
As a young child, I drew dozens of schematics and wrote many computer programs on paper and simulated them in my head. I had no means of actually implementing them at that time.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,775
As a young child, I drew dozens of schematics and wrote many computer programs on paper and simulated them in my head. I had no means of actually implementing them at that time.
You were gifted that way then... I couldn't lay my hands on a computer until I was 17. And when I did, I didn't let go. I learned to code way before I had taken any formal courses. And in college, a teacher told me not to come to her COBOL class anymore because we were both wasting our time with each other. She gave me the highest final grade and had me enroll in a different class (industrial engineering) to make good use of my time.
 
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