When I was a bit younger than you, I started working for a very cool technology company in my city. They weren't huge, but had some very smart people, and were doing very interesting things at the time. I had a great time working for them, and learned a TON, which translated later into a great job in the field - with them, when they got bought up by a larger, more established company.
The first thing that I tell people your age who are interested in computers - specifically programming - is to program. There is no better way to learn how to do it than actually doing it. Find something that you'd like your computer to do which it's not doing now, and make it do it - like a script that pings your website every 10 minutes to see that it's up, or some code that organizes all of your website logins and logs you in from a central homepage through a simple link. All of these program would be easy, and get you going in your selected field.
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When I was a bit younger than you, I started working for a very cool technology company in my city. They weren't huge, but had some very smart people, and were doing very interesting things at the time. I had a great time working for them, and learned a TON, which translated later into a great job in the field - with them, when they got bought up by a larger, more established company. The first thing that I tell people your age who are interested in computers - specifically programming - is to program. There is no better way to learn how to do it than actually doing it. Find something that you'd like your computer to do which it's not doing now, and make it do it - like a script that pings your website every 10 minutes to see that it's up, or some code that organizes all of your website logins and logs you in from a central homepage through a simple link. All of these program would be easy, and get you going in your selected field.