Originally Posted by MaverickDissident";p=&quot

If you want to develop desktop applications and such, I would recommend starting with learning C and then moving on to C++ and Java. If you want to develop applications for the Web (something like this site, for instance), look into HTML and JavaScript and PHP. There are excellent resources on the Web for this.

Oh, and yeah, you can "regular" programs that run on Windows with Java. Spyware Blaster is one good example.