"I just said I don''t have any books on C programming."

"if u dont have a lot of money look into online books and offline browsers(that way u dont have to wait a lot of time for isp login), the links section of this site has a couple of places for FREE online book sites"

Actually, I don''t have any books on C programming either (a few on C++ though) but I''ve read serval. All I can say is, goto the library - won''t cost you a penny and they have (usually at least) plenty of good books on programming.

"I think, therefore I am...I think"

I''m 15, and I''ve been programming since I was seven (my dad is a proffessor of computer science). A have also been researching 3d graphics (both realtime and non-realtime ) for the past 4-5 years of my life. I am Nathan Vegdahl, by the way. The one who came up with radiosity mapping and wrote the article for this site.
As you can see, age has not much to do with computer skills in this day and age.
Basicly, just keep at it, and you''ll get there Also, don''t work too hard, and don''t try to learn too much at once, otherwise (just like in game development, and school) you''ll burn yourself out. Take it easy and make sure that you understand everything, as opposed to just memorizing bits of code from tutorials.
Also, depending on what kind of programming you want to go into, make certain that you understand the stuff that your programming on the theoretical level (such as in my case, I make you that I know WHY so-and-so code works to rotate a vertex, and WHY so-and-so code works to find a surface normal, etc.) because it will make your life a hell of a lot easier, and you will also be able to optimize the stuff in much better ways that you would have never been able to if you didn''t even know why it worked, so you didn''t know what you could safely change.

Good luck!

Hi. I am 5 years old. I started writing a 3d engine
in LOGO 4 years ago.

Oh yeah! Well I''m still not born yet, in my moms womb! They put a laptop in here and have a net connection going out through the umbilicle cord ;P
But seriously, I did start learning to program at seven. It was really simple stuff. Hypercard, if you''ve ever heard of that, is what I started out in, and there wasn''t very much programming involved with my first couple of programs (stacks), but there was a little (mainly simple scripting of buttons). Over the next three years I made progressively more and more complex stacks until I got to the point where the things I wanted to do were impossible with hypercard.
So, I learned pascal from my dad at the age of ten, and I learned C/C++ a year later from some books that he gave me, and from his helping me about half the time and explaining stuff to me. I then learned ASM a year after that, and I now use both C and ASM as my two main programming languages (although, not much ASM, most of what I do is purely in C).
Anyway, at the same time I was learning pascal I started looking around for computer graphics stuff, and from that point on I continuiously and obsessively gobbled up all info on CG that I could.
So, like I said, it''s not like I was programming 3d graphics at 7 or anything, but that''s when I started doing simple stuff, which paved the way for the rest of my learning (which, as with all computer programmers, no matter how experienced they are, is still continuing).