worst advice for starting programmers

do you have common knowledge of programing? or are you starting from square one?

If you have a understanding of structuring a language then go ahead and jump into something like Visual Basic or C++, depending if you want to program object oriented or not...

but if you have no knowledge, start with something easy like Pascal, just to learn how to structure things...

Alex broke it down pretty well...

>>52
Jesus Christ, do I have to spell everything out for you people? AWT was the standard widget toolkit for Java 1.0. It turned out to be unpopular, so was effectively superseded by Swing in 1.2. Now you can't expect everyone to go around calling everything by the fully qualified names javax.swing.Button and java.awt.Button, can you? Hence JButton. Why the J? Because Swing is now the de facto widget toolkit in Java. Case closed.