@lumley: In terms of programming being hard I get what your saying and personally I haven't found anything I've studied so far too hard and whenever I do encounter something slightly hard than the norm, I love the challenge of breaking down the code and logic of it and understanding it fully.
Thanks for the advice so far guys. Some of you have mentioned the difficulty of programming and that I may change my mind about studying computer science but having spent quite a bit of time toying around with programming at school and home I can safely say that I'm sure it's what I want to do. You may be wondering why a new system is necessary then, well my current setup is a laptop from 2009 that's propped up by an encyclopedia to stop it from overheating. Even if I was forced to switch course it would be to something such as Maths, Physics or some form of engineering and my interest in programming would still exist.
Also I feel that I should make it clear that when I say a PC running Linux, I intend to dual-boot the system but primarily use the Linux OS and environment for development.
Joseph, Scottish student, 17. To keep things short I love video games, reading and cooking. I'm also about to embark on university life later this year.
I wrote a more in-depth introduction as my first blog post.
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