Career help-PC related

[Bboysoda]

Hey everone, im 15 years old, Homeschooled and I just have a few questions to ask.

Becuse Im homeschooled, I have alot more options to learn what I want then most kids, and I dont want to waset my time doing nothing. So the question I have is, what is the best thing to study if I want my career to be with computers.

I know alot of the basic, about the hardware, and I want to learn programming sometime soon. I was thinking I could start off learning about how to build Computers, and work at a small repair computer shop near my house in Louisville Ky. Apart from the money(probably little, but something) and what I will learn there, i might be able to get parts cheap or free so I can build my own computer, which i havent done yet, but wishing.

Then maybe after a few years, I can move up, some place bigger, I dont really know where, but someplace where I can get paid more, and get readdy for a family and a life time career. What I would love to do is work for someplace big, like Dell,HP or even Microsoft.

I dont really know what I want to do involving computers. Build them, repair then, programming, maybe even making games. I know that I can change my mind, and not want to work with computers, but i know knowing alot about computers is good anyways.

So, my main question is, what should i learn? How to build then? Program? The subjects that will get me that farthest in this line of work.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[Jerkstore]

I'd start out with hardware....learn how it connects together (should take a most a week to really learn where everything goes in a machine/what you need to build one)

Learn how the hardware works and how it works with the operating system
(windows and linux)

Start learning to program with C++ or Java if you are more interested in programming software (Many free compilers for those 2 lanuages) or learn HTML, PHP, ASP and such if you are more interested in web based applications (Java is also a good one to learn for this)

You might find that you prefer to work with networks instead of software, or you prefer web based over software, you might even fall in love with hardware and prefer to follow a path in electrical engineering.......I'd still learn in that order: hardware(what it does and how it does it)->software(learn the guts of the OS -windows and inux-) then from there when you have a good base on pretty much everything choose which way to steer your interests

 

[Bboysoda]

Thanks aot Jerkstore!!!

PS-Bump XD

 

[Xycron]

I would also suggest learning hardware firs,t how to build a computer, awhere the parts go, and what all the parts actully do. After that, computer repair could come in handey.