Farewell, programming

I bought my first programming book in 2004, "The C Programming Language" by K&R. I had been making video games by myself since 2001 using simpler tools such as Multimedia Fusion, and had dabbled with Visual Basic too. But this time I wanted to get serious and do real programming, despite being just a kid. What dragged me into programming was the promise of building all my ideas. I always liked mak