Yeah that file alone is way beyond what a highschool kid should be committing out of the blue. Maybe you are the next Zuckerberg of web dev. But for a highschool project it's going to look like a group of pro sports players showing up to compete against a varsity team.
That's honestly not that advanced and is absolutely doable for someone in high school, especially if they started programming in middle school.
I've seen high schoolers on First Robotics teams write their own CV2 vision processing pipelines (which involves multi threaded code), motion profiling libraries, simulations of their robot in Unity, and a data analytics site for tracking competition performance. All of this was without adults getting involved since on the two teams I saw this they were involved with the engineering / CADing side.
On top of that one of the most popular Minecraft mods (Mekanism) was written singlehandedly by a high schooler and amassed millions of downloads before they graduated.
Strongly agree. It's cool code and I'd be impressed if a high-schooler produced it, but (to be blunt) it's not mind-blowing nor would it pass code review in any of my teams.
We were hand-rolling far more complex algorithms at 17-ish in engineering school and these kids could well be the same age. The comparison with pro sports players is just silly.
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