He likes fish sticks, and finishing his homework in the hallway between classes.
He has more time for coding when he gets home that way.
Harrison Brammell, a fifth grader from New Orleans, is just a tiny bit obsessed with learning to code.
After he wakes up at 7-ish, he has a quick breakfast and hops on the computer before school. After last bell, and some soccer or bowling, he's back on, hammering away until bath and bedtime at 9, with a dinner break around 6.
Harrison hogged the family computer so much his parents had to get him his own. A 4 GB RAMToshiba (TOSBF) laptop now sits on a corner desk in the living room, hooked up to two monitors and a wireless keyboard. God forbid, if anyone touches "his hub" -- as his mother calls it -- watch out.
Over the past few months, the little Louisiana resident has been teaching himself to code through YouTube videos and a book his dad bought for him from Barnes and Noble in January, Sams Teach Yourself Java. He's already taught himself to code a mini role-playing game from scratch.
Harrison's passion was sparked when he started to play Minecraft, a video game where you create and destroy virtual worlds using blocks.
Minecraft players can make modifications, or mods, to the game, which is how kids like Harrison start learning to code.
"I like having control over my digital entertainment," he said.
Harrison is currently working on developing a "Galatica-like" game. He also wants to start learning Objective-C, Swift (iOS), C, C++, C#, HTML and CSS.
