Ok, I will start off with I don't know if this is the best language to start with. I just want to write WPF apps and maybe start on Cocoa (a mac programming language) after mastering C. I have tryed learning WPF before, but it required knowing a lot of Visual Basic, and I heard that C just sits on top of Visual Basic. I don't know much about this stuff, but has Visual Basic always been a language from Microsoft, like what about Visual C, and all the other C programming languages. Isn't JAVA from Sun Microsystems, why do people go from C to Java if they are completely different, how is it the next step if it isn't even from the same company? Why would someone use Java, isn't it some ugly programming language that runs on just about everything and whatever it can run on it can run a Java program by emulating it? I thought Java was crappy because Second Life and LimeWire I think are both Java and they look like the developers didn't even take time to make a Mac OS X version and just compiled it for Mac OS X without making it run good on Mac OS X. Hell I don't think Java supports cleartype either because those 2 apps have ugly font. I know JavaScript is completely different from Java, in fact, I think JavaScript is awesome.
That looks very confusing, but can someone explain to me what the connections are between these languages, and just so you know, I have developed a functional browser in Visual Basic, I just got stuck on something and I feel like it is time to continue learning.
I got stuck on declarations, more specifically using the registry to store keys about the information used in the browser, I specifically got stuck on trying to do it first with the homepage setting. It kept saying homepage wasn't declared, I got frustrated, and I attempted to learn Visual Basic before using MSDN but they screwed up the articles and all of a sudden they were telling me to do something that linked me to like 20 chapters ahead of where I was, and spent countless hours trying to figure out what happened but I gave up. I attempted to learn again, and all of sudden I see those familar articles that screwed me up last time which led me here.
I need to learn Visual Basic, I think I'm positive, if you think I could learn something before Visual Basic, you can help me with doing that, but I just want to write WPF apps and make something with .NET Framework, I also am using Visual Studio 2008 Visual Basic Express Edition and Expression Blend (latest version).
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I'm a noob to this stuff in a way, but I'm not retarded, I have some experience with this stuff from ASP.NET development and some expermental projects in Visual Basic. Also I know my post just got bloated, but I just can't wait for a reply, I feel so motivated to do this, sorry for the bloated post that might have several grammar errors. :p
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Ok, I will start off with I don't know if this is the best language to start with. I just want to write WPF apps and maybe start on Cocoa (a mac programming language) after mastering C. I have tryed learning WPF before, but it required knowing a lot of Visual Basic, and I heard that C just sits on top of Visual Basic. I don't know much about this stuff, but has Visual Basic always been a language from Microsoft, like what about Visual C, and all the other C programming languages. Isn't JAVA from Sun Microsystems, why do people go from C to Java if they are completely different, how is it the next step if it isn't even from the same company? Why would someone use Java, isn't it some ugly programming language that runs on just about everything and whatever it can run on it can run a Java program by emulating it? I thought Java was crappy because Second Life and LimeWire I think are both Java and they look like the developers didn't even take time to make a Mac OS X version and just compiled it for Mac OS X without making it run good on Mac OS X. Hell I don't think Java supports cleartype either because those 2 apps have ugly font. I know JavaScript is completely different from Java, in fact, I think JavaScript is awesome.
That looks very confusing, but can someone explain to me what the connections are between these languages, and just so you know, I have developed a functional browser in Visual Basic, I just got stuck on something and I feel like it is time to continue learning.
I got stuck on declarations, more specifically using the registry to store keys about the information used in the browser, I specifically got stuck on trying to do it first with the homepage setting. It kept saying homepage wasn't declared, I got frustrated, and I attempted to learn Visual Basic before using MSDN but they screwed up the articles and all of a sudden they were telling me to do something that linked me to like 20 chapters ahead of where I was, and spent countless hours trying to figure out what happened but I gave up. I attempted to learn again, and all of sudden I see those familar articles that screwed me up last time which led me here.
I need to learn Visual Basic, I think I'm positive, if you think I could learn something before Visual Basic, you can help me with doing that, but I just want to write WPF apps and make something with .NET Framework, I also am using Visual Studio 2008 Visual Basic Express Edition and Expression Blend (latest version).
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I'm a noob to this stuff in a way, but I'm not retarded, I have some experience with this stuff from ASP.NET development and some expermental projects in Visual Basic. Also I know my post just got bloated, but I just can't wait for a reply, I feel so motivated to do this, sorry for the bloated post that might have several grammar errors. :p
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