Interested in PC game development - advice needed

[Turtles]

Hey, I'm still at school and interested in PC game development or something along those lines. I was wondering what could I do to get some practice or if there's anything I could do just by myself to get some experience. Work experience would obviously be a route I'll look down in the summer or after I've finished school but is there any programs / tutorials I could use to get started and into programming, etc? Sorry it's a bit vague but I don't really know what to say

Any help much appreciated

 

[Turtles]

Well I'm just really interested in PC games and PCs in general. I thought I better try and get an idea of what game programming is like (Only done Visual Basic at school) and I wanted to try some design type program (I've only used Google Sketch-up and Photoshop). I'll check out some of the programs recommended. I don't know if it's what I want to do in the future, I just wanted a kind of taster to see if I'm any good and if I enjoy it. I haven't taken Physics, Art or Graphics at Higher, and I'm not that great at Maths - so maybe developing PC games is not for me...we'll see
Thanks for all the replies.