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?

>>23
Wrong.

Programming something is easy if you don't think about how you program.

Programming something *well* becomes hard.

Any idiot can sort a list, but the smart ones can do it with n log n comparisons. The idiots you speak of, the ones that picked it up in a couple of hours, do it with n^2 comparisons.

Esp. if you are teaching yourself -- the Java you learn for the AP exam will let you pass the AP exam. You *need* to take time after that to focus on algorithms and data structures. That will make you a good programmer, not learning a different language.