The beauty of being young is that you can actually do everything the commenters said barring external limitations such as money.
I lean towards comments suggesting to think about college and continue honing programming skills.
When you are young, you haven’t seen what’s out there yet. College is the stepping stone towards that. If you don’t know what’s out there, how can you know how to build something that’s useful?
Also, practicing programming doesn’t have to be boring. In my teen:
* I wrote fortune telling CLI app to impress girls.
* Hacked infinite money on my SimCity and Dune 2 save games using hexadecimal editor.
* Pranking a friend by asking him to download an agent that control his cd rom tray (for haloween purpose)
* Wrote a bunch of excel functions for soccer gambling.
So I guess, long story short, life should be fun, but that doesn’t stop you from being a kick ass in programming.
Don’t worry too much about CV or portfolio. If you are good, you will have plenty of time doing that already in college.
I lean towards comments suggesting to think about college and continue honing programming skills.
When you are young, you haven’t seen what’s out there yet. College is the stepping stone towards that. If you don’t know what’s out there, how can you know how to build something that’s useful?
Also, practicing programming doesn’t have to be boring. In my teen:
* I wrote fortune telling CLI app to impress girls.
* Hacked infinite money on my SimCity and Dune 2 save games using hexadecimal editor.
* Pranking a friend by asking him to download an agent that control his cd rom tray (for haloween purpose)
* Wrote a bunch of excel functions for soccer gambling.
So I guess, long story short, life should be fun, but that doesn’t stop you from being a kick ass in programming.
Don’t worry too much about CV or portfolio. If you are good, you will have plenty of time doing that already in college.