I'm amazed by the amount of people starting before 12. I started at 13, I was looking at random YouTube videos, and ran across a video entitled something along

I'm amazed by the amount of people starting before 12. I started at 13, I was looking at random YouTube videos, and ran across a video entitled something along the lines of "How to make a web browser in VB." I then began to look at more of these videos until I could make a calculator, web browser, and progress bar. Then I left programming for a year. :( After a year, i picked it back up with a tip from a friend to not use VB, but instead use C#. After that I started to build stuff on my own and wrote a game in C#. After that I picked up a book called C++ Primer Plus from a local book store (I was 15 by this time), and read through it in about a month. Now, 2 years later I am working on a start-up using mainly C++ with bits of several other languages with the friend that tipped me off to C#. Cheers to you friend. It also interests me that so many people started with HTML. I never really "learned" HTML, nor was it the first language I used. I just had to use it once to build a website, and it came extremely naturally after a bit of Google searching for tags.