Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking for "a job" do?

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14 years ago

Hi there, I'm Aviral Dasgupta (http://www.aviraldg.com), a sixteen-year-old with a interest in web development (in Python) and a passion for solving problems.

I'm not looking for something big (I already do some open source stuff); just something that can either give me practical experience or the kind of cash required to fund my own projects. So, do you have a project you need done? Please tell me about it here.

Also, what should I do next? What should I learn?

Thanks.

More about me:

- Started developing when I was 11 or 12, with PHP and created a (rather simple) Twitter clone.

- I was a Grand Prize Winner in Google Code-in 2010 for my work with open source software. (http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/2011/02/google-code-in-grand-prize-winners.html)

- Involved with quite a few open source projects like Django (Python), Tux4Kids (C/SDL), OpenIntents (Android/Java)

- Here's my SO profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/152873/aviraldg

- I've got quite some experience developing in Python (and Django), I've also done some front-end stuff with JavaScript.

- I'm currently dabbling with Flask, SQLAlchemy and data visualization and working on a top-secret project (which requires aforementioned funding.)

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