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[cem_devecioglu]

As Lizzie stated he is only 14.. and in time he may discover what he is really curious about..
 
however you can buy him a programmable electronic education kit with related programming books..

[Andy H]

I started computer programming at his age where my school was well ahead of the norm, using punch cards on a local collage mainframe.

Buy him a Raspberry pi computer and see how he gets on.

I keep trying to get his IT teacher to let the rest of his class try this Rod: www.scratch.mit.edu
Its great for kids to learn to start using code. Ben loves it and has made some really good projects.But teacher is not for it.

Makes me want to spit 
The problem with most computing in schools is that the lessons are not much different to the 'office practice' classes of 30 years ago. The pupils who did 'office practice' being the least academic in the school.

At the school I went to programming was the preserve of a few enlightened teachers in the science and technology departments.

The BCS (british computing society) is trying hard to get programming back into schools.

http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/door

[Jukeboxnut]

A friend of mine's 16 year old son is a champion of the Rubiks cube.  Now he's designing his own puzzles which are being manufactured in China and his future is looking good. 

[STMO123]

A friend of mine's 16 year old son is a champion of the Rubiks cube.  Now he's designing his own puzzles which are being manufactured in China and his future is looking good.

That's good to hear

[tigers_gonads]

Steve, i'm no expert on aspergers but my cousins lad is borderline autistic.
He also "has a nack" with anything that had numbers in it or any type of calculations or formula's  from his early teens.
He also is a dab hand at computing.

Any idea what his IQ level is ?
Might be a idea to have a word with mensa.

I know that some folks who have been given the label of aspergers or autism have been proven to have incredible high scores on the mensa test.

You may find that mensa will be able to point you down a path that will let your lad get the most out of his future 

[dbug]

Continue the Maths and try computer programming - challenging!