Quick Question

when did most of you guys start learning any program language and what age do you prefer to start on it...i know age doesnt matter but i went up to my brothers house last summer and he had tons of Program languages tutorials/audios/visuals etc, and me having these dreams took all of them
so my question still remains what age should you think a person should start and what is the average time a person finishes a C++ tut?, i started it last year and i'm fairly familiar with the concept and basic codes. thank you in advance.

Age really doesn't matter, it only matters whether you are motivated to learn or not. My first experiences with programming were at the age of 9 or 10. All the documentation was in English (I'm not a native speaker) so it was only trial-and-error back then. A bit later I really got into programming, around the age of 12.

No one can really tell you an average time for finishing a tutorial since all tutorials are different (even if someone could, it would be pretty useless statistic). It depends so much on the tutorial. My advice is don't think about how long it will take to finish it. Finishing is so broad concept: reading through might take 10 minutes, but really understanding the concepts might take hours or days. What you should really do is to focus on learning. You're not going to take a test so don't prepare for one. Learn the stuff because you want to learn, whether you finish one tutorial or not is really irrelevant. What matters is what you learn from it.

And do not kill your motivation by trying to learn everything in the "correct" order someone else has decided. Usually there is a reason why things are taught in that order, but it doesn't mean that you can't be doing your own projects on the side even when you haven't finished all the tutorials yet. The only way to learn how to program is to program yourself, so I would recommend you start doing your own stuff from the day one (or two). It doesn't have to be anything complicated, just something, anything. Especially in the beginning, writing ten lines of code yourself is better than reading a hundred lines of someone else's.

Age has nothing to do with learning how to program, I can't find the video but I saw a video of a 12 year old making the top app in IOS. As long as you are really dedicated and intrigued by programming, you will learn it.

There is no set in barrier time to finish a book/ tutorial on c++. It all depends on how fast you learn, how dedicated you are, and how much you read/watch. To be honest, you shouldn't cram a huge tutorial in one day, lets say someone has a 20 video series on c++ operations or something that you have no clue about. You shouldn't watch 10 of them in a row, cause sure at the end of each video, you might understand THAT video. But you will forget everything else besides a few things. It's better to read a chapter/video and soak it in by using it, for an example lets say you just learned about for loops. Implement a for loop in a program so how that you make 100% by yourself, this will help understand the lesson learned instead of saying, "I understand it, next." Bottom line of this paragraph is this

If you truly want to be a great programmer and make a living off of it, there is no amount of time you finish learning, you are always learning, if you love learning about programming and actually coding; why rush learning it? soak it in.