College is really late for starting, you want to dig in as soon as possible. Because all of us make beginners' mistakes, and the sooner you learn from them, the better for you. College usually already expects you to know something about programming, have some background in algorithms etc.
I still remember my beginnings with C++. I got a set of manuals for Borland C++ 2.0 for DOS, it was the first programming language that I got my hands on that could create standalone (exe) files; all my previous encounters were with interprets like basic. I took the books (total of 3 kg!) on my first vacation at the seaside (we're a land-locked country, so going to a sea is actually quite an effort
) and was I glad I did - the very first day I got so sunburnt that I had to spend the rest of the vacation indoors. So instead of lying on the beach and swimming in the sea, I was reading up on structs and classes and inheritance and overloading... The best vacation 
Boy, that was some 20 years ago, doesn't the time fly!
Anyway, I think the individual finishers are somewhat overgrowing, we need to trim them down. So far they could be parametrised into a single class that takes "biome, block to generate, block required underneath, amount per chunk (per biome)". So I'd say don't bother with the patch, it's gonna get rewritten soon (wanna try it?
I still remember my beginnings with C++. I got a set of manuals for Borland C++ 2.0 for DOS, it was the first programming language that I got my hands on that could create standalone (exe) files; all my previous encounters were with interprets like basic. I took the books (total of 3 kg!) on my first vacation at the seaside (we're a land-locked country, so going to a sea is actually quite an effort
) and was I glad I did - the very first day I got so sunburnt that I had to spend the rest of the vacation indoors. So instead of lying on the beach and swimming in the sea, I was reading up on structs and classes and inheritance and overloading... The best vacation Boy, that was some 20 years ago, doesn't the time fly!Anyway, I think the individual finishers are somewhat overgrowing, we need to trim them down. So far they could be parametrised into a single class that takes "biome, block to generate, block required underneath, amount per chunk (per biome)". So I'd say don't bother with the patch, it's gonna get rewritten soon (wanna try it?