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hey guys, i am 16 years old atm, and you may say its early to decide on my careers, but its not.

over 80% of teenage boys now days want to be a computer game designer or a programmer, because they think they are fun and stuff (lack of real experience)
and normally at my age (grade 10) they will start to teach basic programming (turing) in school, and that will be the first time 95% of those 80% of boys doing some real programming, but once they get to university or at starting to find a job, they will get PWNED by people like me who started programming at like 12.

MY STORY:

I am a very experienced website maker (Mostly HTML 4.01), CSS(I bet almost every one here know this), JS.

I started with making a forum for my own clan at age of 12, at 14, i starts to making ecommerce sites for couple hundred bucks each to adults who are like 20 or 30 years older than me, but i quit that because too many page to manage…

any ways, i want to be a professional programmer or web designer , and i know there are professional programmer and web designers here (mopar probably have more, but then i'd be a noob there), what kinds of options do i have?

If i want to be professional programmer, what language should i learn? what side languages? What steps should i go through?

If i want to be professional web designer, what should i improve on? what else should i learn?

please help guys/sirs !

c++ is gud start i think i wanna be a prop programmer
im ace aat it i learn really fast

only bin doing scar fopr 2weeks

From: waddo
c++ is gud start i think i wanna be a prop programmer
im ace aat it i learn really fast

only bin doing scar fopr 2weeks

But SCAR's not a programming language ;)

But he's right, I think. I'd say most companies use C++ as at least one of their programming languages, but still, learn, learn, and learn some more. You'll never know what will come in handy.

hmm i supose ur right scar is only the compiler
so what is the programming language?

yer if u gunna learn a fe id say c/c++ as a first v imp
java is a good secondary
erm mysql or ruby possibly they could be quite good

im gunna learn c++ one day soon

any one wanna give me some help with it tut me (im a fast learner)

There lies the big debate… C++, or something else.

To me, that something else has always been C#. Although companies generally say they prefer C++ experience, I believe that in a few years time C# will be fully accepted as the leading programming language (after all, its still new).

Having said that, by bias may be on the fact that C++ is found to be quite a hard language to learn (or at least time consuming I found).

I'm 17, have been programming for 2 years. If I have the choice when I go to Uni, I would go for C#… or at least something in C (Remembering that C itself isnt dead… and it is considered to be the latin of programming languages. Learn it, and the rest become easy).

As for website design… tryed it… hated it… too much fiddle farting around and showing my ARTISTIC side. Can't help you much there :) (Although java definitely wouldnt be a bad place to start… and I've heard something about Silverlight? Not sure if its a language as such, but definitely sounds popular so its worth a look if you wish to integrate the two ideas).

tuts to c/c++? i googled it but then they are mostly too hardcore reading and no good explains..

cprogramming.com cplusplus.com

they're all reading but then again pretty much everything is. For videos I think
sean.cruels.net or something has some vids on cplusplus.