Java, lol

I was told by a game developer at this seminar that if I want to learn how to program games, a good way to start is with Java and making cellphone games. I plan on learning C++ before Java anyway but around how long would it take a newbie to learn Java or when would it be a good idea to learn Java if not at all?

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Of course you can do that, and I do consider Verilong/VHDL to be a programming language, but it's not a programming language meant to be ran on sequential CPUs (even if it can be emulated on them). It's more of a programming language than XML, in the sense that it describes a form of code which can be ran on a physical platform, not data, but at the same time it will compile to physical gate-level structures... Argh, whatever, it is a programming language.