Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/69785/ 2008-11-22T18:12:46-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/69785/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2007-12-03T06:40:54-05:00 Reason http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/69785/#521172 Cool, thanks, I'll start there. text/html 2007-12-02T23:09:26-05:00 CrAsHnBuRnXp http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/69785/#521099 From what I hear, if you learn C++ first, Java is easier to learn. text/html 2007-12-02T23:00:25-05:00 Reason http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/69785/#0 My end goal is to write a plug-in for Quintessential Media Player that will either A: allow it to use any/all Winamp visualizations (optimum) or B: allow it to use the Milkdrop viz (sufficient).<br /> <br /> Aside from some long-forgotten BASIC programming back in '91, I have no coding experience.<br /> <br /> I'm pretty sure Milkdrop is open source and I know the QMP creator encourages user-developed plug-ins, so I could get some basic resources from/for each program, but how to I utilize them?<br /> <br /> How do I determine if I should learn C++ or Javascript or what? If I achieve this first goal and get somewhat decent at coding in the process, I'd like to have a flexible base in learning other coding languages/approaches.