I'm 14 myself. Iv'e been glued to the computer since I was 4. Been modding games and scripting since I was 11. Started 2D game design with GameMaker at 12(I think). I then moved to VB at the beginning of 13...quickly got bored, and jumped into c++ and OpenGL in the same year. Now i'm 14 (15 in october), and am writing a full next-gen 3D game engine, with a beta release coming up soon. So there, you can program at an "early age". Starting with scripting and moding really helped me though. It teaches you all the little things that you can't get from a tutorial or book...I don't know what they are exactly, but they're there.
-psychopath
