DS is in year 12 and wants to apply to uni next year to do Computer Science. He's studying Maths, Further Maths and a humanities subject, and will be doing a CS-based EPQ next year.
He's predicted A*-A for all subjects, and has good GCSEs, so he wants to apply to a couple of aspirational places, which will be very competitive indeed.
The real problem is that he doesn't have anything to write about in order to show his interest in CS, and he's just flailing and floundering about on his own.
He's done bits of coding by himself , but he always seems to aim too high, and can't possibly achieve the thing he has imagined. He has picked up some Python, and has tried to learn a bit of Unity, but when he looks at the code to try to modify a piece of the program, it is just too hard. Tutorials seem to be either very rudimentary, or very advanced. Raspberry pi is still in its box from Xmas.
I found him things like Bebras, and Cyber Challenge, and he did ok, but there isn't much to talk about.
Mostly he just watches YouTube videos of exciting coding projects that other people have done.
he also says he can't choose a uni course because he doesn't understand what the module titles mean or what they are about.
His college tutor is supposed to help with this sort of thing, but she has not even replied to the emails he's sent her previously.
Please can any of you wonderful people advise? Where can he look for guidance about what he should be doing now? What are the obvious things that an aspiring CS student would be doing? How can he get more detail about the uni modules?
Any advice would be much appreciated.