1) PHP is a great high-school job. Much better than a paper route, flipping burgers, or working at the car wash. If you freelance you can set your own schedul

1) PHP is a great high-school job. Much better than a paper route, flipping burgers, or working at the car wash. If you freelance you can set your own schedule which can work well around your school schedule. 2) Hosting is cheap so your parents will probably let you use their credit card. 3) It's so approachable that it can help you get started with programming so that some day you can move on to better languages.