Having a quite a few unfinished projects and/or games that never got to see the light of day to my name, I'll second this.Rahsennor wrote:I wrote my first game when I was 7. It was a silly little text-mode BASIC thing - no Java in those days! - but it had two players, an AI and win/loss conditions. I wrote my second game when I was 23 and a half. I spent the intervening time doing exactly what you're doing - aiming for the stars and falling short of the clouds.
Iirc, when I was 11 or 12 I was hard at work trying to create a remake of FF4 in C++ in DOS - and I was in way over my head, not really understanding the majority of what I was doing, and not really learning anything in the process. Like others have said, it's a lot easier to stay motivated and actually learn when you're doing attempting something that's a decent challenge, without it being way beyond your abilities.
Which is why I made a NES emulator, rather than a PS3 emulator :)