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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I wasn't critisising anyone at all Bifta but he ISN'T performing brain surgery is he?
He may fail but so what.At least he will have tried.His enthusiasm is really a refreshing change to the usual apathetic teenagers I come across in everyday life so I reckon encouragement can't hurt.SO if he fails he fails and maybe he will have learned the lesson you think he should learn.Whom will he have hurt in the process?
How many of us always listened to our elders and betters all the time and never made a mistake.Mistakes are how we really learn.We can watch and learn by example(other peoples mistakes) but I bet everyone here remembers that the best lessons learned were the ones when we fell flat on our faces. 
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Somehow I don't think you've comprehended the enormity of what he's trying to do, it's a mammoth task for somebody exceptionally well versed in various programming languages, at the last count, going by the questions he's asked previously, he has no knowledge in that field. Learning the basics first will give him a good grounding and make him in the future able to perform the task he wants to do now, frankly, as a teacher, I'm surprised you don't encourage this sort of thing instead of just telling people to jump in feet first.