Hello, I am currently a college freshman attending a local community college in my area. I plan to transfer to San Jose state and get their software engineering degree. My long term goal is to have stable rewarading job, hopefuly get hired in silicon valley.

I have no experience whatsoever in programming. My first programming class will be this fall and it will be introduction to C++.

I know that there are a lot of self taught programmers and with practice they can be far more better than college graduates.

Can you guys give me an advice to where to start? Which book to read? which website i should start studying? which language to start with etc...

I am a complete noob but i would like to start earlier to get used to programming and also become comfortable with it and hopeful to develop a passion for programming.

I personally would recommend that you wait until you start learning stuff in class before you try doing anything on your own. Unguided learning in programming can be difficult to do well, and it has the pitfalls of leading to bad habits/mentality when you actually *do* get around to learning properly from someone.

That said, if you want to get a head start, it definitely doesn't hurt to learn some core fundamentals. Given your timeframe, I think the best thing you can do now is to familiarize yourself with some basic programming concepts rather than a particular language.

I've been recommending this to others wanting to do self-learning:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/

Of course, it won't hurt to learn some basic hello-world-esque stuff in C++ before going into your class, but it really doesn't give you a good sense of what programming/software engineering really is about.

If you want some quality reading go read Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming.