is there a good school around for a child that is a "computer nerd"????

Where are you?

No problem at all. Glad to help and just send me an email and I can post some more science and CSE . If this site prefers, just post it under this topic. Then I'm notified.

Good luck. I hope it relieves some of his tension and the pressures upon him (very smart and very aware and often very sensitive). Consider looking at Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities (just type it in online). It is such a relief to find that they are perfectly normal for who they are. He's not a "nerd", he's a wonder---just like you want your surgeon or doctor or inventor or scientist to be. You're a good mom.

KarenTC

Thanks sooo much!!!!

Websites are no problem. I am the family apprentice, but I've learned a lot since I retired--especially in the area of what our son needs and I'm volunteering with GT families (esp those that are homeschooling--having taught for 30 years and homeschooled for 5, I have a good resume or maybe it is age...:-).

Our son prefers the Java Tutorial website from Sun Microsystems, but you are probably better off to look or try each and see what fits. Jeff is 14.

Introduction to Computer Science using Java

fp.lhps.org/scarbeau/javaonlinelessons/cs151java.html

This is from Central Connecticut University and has chapters on analog and binary signals, running Java programs etc. It comes with interactive quiz and flash cards. Very nice professor created it and responded to questions I sent to the college. FREE


The Java Tutorials (by Java company--Sun Microsystems)
java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
This is more advanced and more updated and recommended by Dr. Kjell (from CCU) because Jeff complained that the other one was “outdated”. Dr. K said that his site is used by most high schools so if Jeff recognized it, he needed something more advanced--hence this site; so it depends on where the person is (I probably wouldn’t understand either one ….) also FREE


Animations to Assist Learning Some Key Computer Science Topics
courses.cs.vt.edu/~csonline/
This is from Virginia Tech, but not focused on Java (I don’t know how updated it is). It is interactive, quizzes, animations etc. It goes into algorithms, artificial intelligence, data structures etc; set up in modules. And FREE

PLEASE NOTE "FREE". I really believe that schools could save so much money if they used the internet more. Books are wonderful,but when they cost $30-50 per subject, it adds up.

Get good ones for fiction or reference and use the free sites that interact and adapt to a child's ability. Then the teachers would have more time to "interact" with the kids.



There are tons of AP chemistry websites that I haven't used yet (I've just been researching).
I don't know if they are right for your son. I will do a little research and post some other ones. Again, we have TONS.

www.sciencegeek.net/APchemistry/APtaters/directory.shtml

shs.nebo.edu/Faculty/Haderlie/apchem/apchem.html (list of many sites)

www.chemistrygeek.com/ap.htm
(has online 3D lab, too)

www.chemcool.com/

chemunder.mps.ohio-state.edu/under/microchem/microchem.htm

Most are from colleges. Type in 'chemistry online' and a BUNCH come up and could save schools megabucks. I guess that is a new topic I should start and then a portion of the savings should be spent on gifted education...I'm sure I have several math ones,too--oh, try Geogebra. Great program designed by a Austrian-born, now USA professor, Dr. Markus Hohenwarter . It combines geometry and algebra. Your son will love it. It accommodates abilities from age 5 through college. Here's the basic website (and it is FREE) to download and then 247 is a walk through with visual and auditory instruction.

www.geogebra.org/cms/

math247.pbwiki.com/Learn-and-Use-GeoGebra

If you show this to his teacher and she/he can see the benefit (after he's started it at home and perhaps don't tell him the school plan until it is possible), he could do it at school on an independent or self instructed project....when there is a review going on ...he's learning not playing.....it's the teacher/mother of a gt in me... good luck
Karen




Karen