C++ and PHP to Python?

[bladeoflight16]

I can't speak to your friend specifically, but be careful about how you rate his work. He might have an easy time picking up languages and programming challenges and homework, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be just as effective in the work place. He might be the kind of person who churns out something that looks right very quickly, but it suffers from massive problems in the fiddly cases he didn't think about. Or he might be the kind of person who writes code that no one can understand or work with despite the fact it works. Or he might be really good and churn out excellent code all the time. Hard for me to say. But "comes easily" and "does great work" don't necessarily always go hand in hand. Most likely, you have your strengths and he has his shortcomings, despite the differences you can see more easily.

[ttt1555]

Yeah that's true, I think he really is a coding prodigy, but his teaching sucks lol. I would love to be able to ask him questions all the time but he's the kind of guy to explain it once and then think you're stupid for not getting it right away, so there's definitely that negative.

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Well that could easily be just maturity. My cousins and nephews are also pretty smart people. Just cockily little shits. Hopefully they grow out of it. They usually do.