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ok well im filling out my four year plan for high school and i need to know if i need to take programing or not. is it something i can learn on my own or do i need to take classes? i might b able to do like yomama and take classes at a local college or seomthgin but i just wanna know if i can get anywhere by teaching myself. plz help

im sure you could teach yourself the basics...

teaching yourself is hard and long and it takes a lot of fiddling and depending on what age you are it might take a very long time. its best if you get a push start by just even a msn person teaching you a few commands and the basics of that language . btw if your starting i would sugest www.python.org as your first language.

well im only 13 if that matters

yea i am 13 and i started learning programming when i was 12 i got a course from a camp for 1 week
Edit: if you need programming for your school that has got to be one unique school i would be glad even if i could do programming 4 years into high school (im not sure of your system but i guess ur in americia but i have a different system where i come from)

actually im 13, i just made a typo. and i dont have to have programing but its a course offered if i decide to take a technical path but thats why i want to know if i need to take it or not so ill know wether or not to do combined(technical/university). There is a programing 1&2 offwere at the high school ill be going to begining in 10th grade

well you dont need you but it would be a good idea if you are doing it for collage. and i would strongly sugest that you get a head start because most people would have probally done the same (but not all) and once you get the first bit over the rest slides in and btw im making a tutorial (and finishing it when i get over all my emails every day ( around 5) lol so check it out and www.sparkicks.com and go to learn to program and also go to www.python.org and docs and there are some more there

If you want to learn to program, i would suggest taking wither a web based language, such as php or javascript (www.php.net, www.w3schools.com), C++ or VB.

Web based languages are good as you can test them right off, but you need special servers for php.
C++ is also quite easy, but you need to compile it for it to work.

I've never used VB, but it seems very versatile, and looks simple.

if your starting off you need to start with something simple. u dont want to dash right in since there are not a lot of starting to program tutorials for those languages but for python and vb there are loads

well, i just found out i am taking them cause i dont have to choose a different path to take them apperantly

I was able to teach myself GML (Gamer Maker Language) over a period of 4 years. Its fun. Heres my favorite thing i wrote with it.

{
if(!you.likeme){
if(getmessage("Really?","Yes";1,"No";0)){
with(you)instance_destroy()
}
}
}

rofl game makers language doesn't count as programming.

^^ yeah, I tried it, gave up I wanted a wider selection of codes to play with so I got into VB...This is my last year of school...Then I can go to college...Im doing PC courses for sure, Not programing...yet...But I suggest if you really want a carrer in programing then do courses, but if you just want it as a hobbie then just learn yourself..You'll be surpised how much you can learn on your own....EVERY thing I know about computers I have spell tough...cuz I missed aload of schooling...and I cant do computing at my school I'm at now...Vb is a good language to start with..easier to learn that C++, you thought about doing graphics as well?

yes sentinel go for it im also going to high school next year and im sure im going to take programing if they have it lol