tip: get an arduino or a DSP board and a soldering iron and some basic electronics if you can afford it, spend a few months with it as a hobby.

It will increase your insights in to programming tremendously.

Dude, chill, I was in the same position when I was 13. It is important to remember to never stop learning. Remember to learn the foundation first: how to program, how computers work, Unix, TCP/IP networking. For electronics, the basics are circuit theory, Boolean algebra, and so forth. With the foundation, you'll be able to understand all this.

But a little less now than there was before reading the article?

and your comment reminds me that I'm not alone ;)