To Be a Programmer.

I've wanted to be a game programmer for a long time now. Luckily, my high school offers a computer programming course. We were taught Visual Basic the first year, C++ in the command prompt the second year, and C++ in DirectX the third. I have gotten a very good understanding of how programming languages work, but we weren't really taught much code. As of now I can only make a simple sprite move across the screen in a full screen DirectX window. I can somewhat animate the sprite, but it is very glitchy with the code I know.

Anyway, after taking a class for three years and only being able to animate a sprite, I realized that I need to actually look into programming for myself and not rely on a class to teach me everything, and that's what I suggest you do. Sure a college level class would probably be of much better quality then some mere high school course, but you still need to look into it yourself. Try to find a good C++ book and give it a read. If you don't like to read books, then try to find some good tutorials online. Most will probably be poorly written or something, but I am sure there are some good ones out there.

As Spaz said, though, don't rush to learn everything, because you won't be able to. Doing so would probably greatly overwhelm you.