I'm twenty-three now, but I learned to program early in my teens. If you want my advice, start with C++.
It is the most popular language which is TRULY object-oriented, and learning it will give you the fundamentals to work with many other tools.
If you start with something like visual basic, you will
DEFINATELY pick up bad habits which will hamper you working in more sophisticated languages later

- John

[Edited by RoyceWindsor1 on 04-22-2000 at 02:00 PM]