Few questions

Hai thar /prog/  I'm 15, going into sophmore year of highschool, and getting to be decent with computers.  My last 2 computers have been built by me, I've done some game modding/scripting(Major TES fan), and I succesfully tri-boot gentoo lunix, freebsd, and XP.  Overall, I know a pretty decent amount of my shit, and I've just recently started getting into programming.  I've started out by learning Java, mainly because I want to take the AP exam for Comp Sci, and that means Java.  I bought a book to learn the language, and a review book for the actual exam.  My question, has anyone here taken the AP Comp Sci A or AB exams recently?  Suggestions?  Java isn't the most popular language from what I gather, so what should I learn after that?

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Not quite. Actually ``programming'' something is easy. If you have basic common sense, then anyone can pick it up in a couple of hours, if not instantly. Actually picking a language for the right task, knowing the intracies of that language and how to use it properly and effectively is the real problem.
Also, there seems to be a shift in the industry toward the actual design process of software. I know this may suprise you teenage programmer virgins, but software isn't developed by hacking away in your basement in isolation. You typically work within teams, and follow a formal design process, before you actually code anything.