arghbleargh's comments

It's completely normal to have to start over a few times as a beginner. Learning to code is not trivial, and since you're not going to learn everything before you start writing code, you'll inevitably run into issues that you didn't anticipate.

That said, the OP could probably benefit from planning ahead a little more. It helps to focus on core aspects of the product that are not likely to change and to anticipate things that you might want to change. At first, it may be a little hard to hold your entire project in your head at once, but once you've broken it down into a few core components, it becomes much easier to think about things going forward.

It sounds like the OP is already arriving at these realizations, so good luck to him!

This is a point worth considering that the other comments seem to ignore. If you embezzle a million dollars from a charity and give half of it back, that doesn't make you an altruistic person. (Saying that just as a thought experiment, not saying that's what's hapenning here.)

For the justification to hold up, you probably need to believe some mixture of the following:

- high frequency trading adds value to society comparable to the amount of money you make

- more money should be transferred from the first world to the third world than people are currently voluntarily willing to give

Wow, a schoolbus! I've been wanting to get one for years, just gotta get first place now!

Seriously though, I like the idea of bringing these different types of people together (students, developers, teachers). Too often people think they know how to "fix education" without seeing the perspectives of everyone involved.

It's clear that the author is very motivated and probably pretty smart, but I wonder if there might be some gaps in his knowledge foundation. I was surprised for example that he was learning about information theory, and yet he had trouble analyzing the computational complexity of a function that he coded.