Swing vs AWT (which should I learn?)

I am writting an mp3 player in Java. I am fairly new to Java as all I know is the programming language; I do not know how to make a GUI. I want to make a cross platform mp3 player that should run on mac, windows and Linux. I also want to use some custom buttons made in Photoshop.
Should I invest time in learning Swing or AWT?
Thank you for your help.

Hello,
this depends on how far You intend to go with "customizing". Swing leaves a few things to the Operating System e.g. Windows or Linux. My swing apps look different under Linux than they do under Windows, because the Frame in which these apps are are drawn is administered by the OP System. On the other hand if customizing means for example changing the java cup icon upper left or changing the Title of the frame, then You will have no problems. More generally spoken: nearly everything can be done as long as You stay with the possibilities You have (Buttons, TextField, Bars ... have a look at the Swing Platfrom !).

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What Murray said.
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But I do not know the difference between Redhat Linux 9 and Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.RedHat Linux 9 is very oldest brother of RHEL5. While RH9 is public (free of charge) distribution, RHEL5 is commercial no free (of charge) distribution. Redhat 9 was last public (free) release from Redhat corporation, since next release it was called Fedora. Name "Redhat" is used only for Commercial enterpise distribution.
There is not difference between using/mantaining of them. But the main difference is that Redhat 9 has pretty old version of kernel, and other packages and is not supported by Oracle.
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Which one should I learn first?As I said before, there is not difference between using/mantaining of them. But as Redhat 9 is pretty old distribution then use RHEL5. There is also existing distribution Centos which is clone of RHEL. When you install Centos 5 in fact you are using RHEL but with changed logos and texts (brands). But unfortunatelly this clone is not officialy supported by Oracle so it can't be use for production Oracle installations. For more informations and download look here: http://www.centos.org
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I have done M.Sc Electronics and have more than 6 yrs experience in Life Insurance Training. which SAP module should I learn

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Here depending on your financial situation you need to decide if you can afford a SAP Certified training course or not. After completing the course start marketting yourself in the market using all the jobsites and professional networks untill you land yourself a job. This is the toughest part.
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After getting the Oracle Database10g OCP and LPI Linux Level1 certificates , I have finished (learn and practise) the following documents:
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Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface
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There have been no fundamental changes in the database engine between Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g. In fact, the last big change of architecture was when Oracle released Oracle 6, and After Image Journalling was replaced by redologs.
That said more than 90 percent of Practical Oracle 8i is still valid. You won't find any fancy stuff about database control, but you can do without.
However, I would recommend against 'learning' anything in the same fashion you have done so far. Looking at the list of books you 'learned' your understanding simply must be very superficial. Essentially you are now swimming in a pool without water, and you didn't even get your toes wet.
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Java IDE's are designed to improve your productivity by providing useful tools such as syntax highlighting and checking, auto-completion, etc.
I would be severly dubious of employing a developer who refused to use an IDE and insisted on using a simple text editor.
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Hi,
I need to build an applet which should dislpay a chessboard where i should
be able to move the pieces around, read in a game analysis, etc...
I am a beginner and i would like some advice on if i should use swing or awt?
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Hi. First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
I am new to web-design (as in brand-new xD) and wish to learn Dreamweaver. With Dreamweaver being such a big application, with so many different tools etc I decided it would be best if I learned the languages I wish to use first, so as I know what Dreamwever is creating and I can 'fine-tune' my websites.
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Which version of each language should I learn?
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Can you reccomend any books etc for me to learn with? I am a full time college student, so will be teaching myself after college hours.
How long should I expect it to take to learn each language? (If you want to give the answer in days/months assume I will be spending 2hours per day average learning each language)
I do not want to learn every single detail about each language, but I do want to learn to a high enouhg level that I am comfortable with reading, understanding and editing my own code.
To help me understand your answers more clearly it would be great if you can just copy and paste this below (although feel free not to ):
What order should I learn these in?
Language:
Version:
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What resources van you reccomend for me to learn from?:
What experience do you have? (I'm just nosey like that :P):
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Hi there
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What language should I learn?

What single programming language should I learn that is most flexible? It's needs are to form the basis for MacOSX Cocoa applications, Linux command-line programs (and preferably least X11). This I ask here, for scientists likely lurk here, but don't always program in Objective C. (Though I've heard nothing but good things about it!)
Currently, I use a variant of APL to assist as I work. When simplifying my life, around 1980, I changed to one editor: the platform-independent emacs. Now I should like to do the same with a 'general' programming language.
Science is free, and scientists (I might suppose) support Richard Stallman's philosophy. Scientific source code needs be freely offered, written in an ISO standard language, and capable of being made platform-independent. It must easily be modified to use scientific libraries (lapack & netlib's others) and write linux, command-line programs, distributed by way of Sourceforge.
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Bruce
PS. This question arose while searching for a simple little program to change images into icons:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7511505#7511505
Here's the continuation of that post, that illustrates the problem, likely faced my many:
Indeed, ... I could always use GraphicConverter.
This topic begs the question of why we use GraphicConverter or PhotoShop to change a single color in an image. That's wasn't always supposed to be the case.
Unix's credo: do only one thing, but do it well, and the popularity of Lotus 1-2-3, decades ago caused a great idea to emerge and gradually grow, until it became alive in developers' minds. Then it suffered a quick death, from unknown causes.
Modular Software
One day, a housewife becoming tired of spending a year learning and 'tuning' huge word processors to write a quick note saying she had gone to the corner market and would be back soon. The concept of modular software emerged: one would buy essentially, a text editor, then buy only those extra little modules you needed for your particular use: editing frills (as in emacs), formatting, adding images, importing & exporting formats, &c: 'personal' software. This needed a modular language; and, as it happened, C++ emerged soon. What ever happened to this idea (or the idea of using sounds for messages in addition to alarms, as in Growl), I never understood.
Simple Software
Many 'Google Images' have a white borders. It would be a clever idea to make background colors 'pure' (not in need of dithering when converted to a raster image). In the latter case, every GIF image could be dropped on an icon that could convert the lower-righthand pixel (the background) to a 'transparent' color. An old GIF image taken from the web could lose its background, and be ready to paste to the tiny icon in and 'Info Window'.
Simple Modules
Ah, but what about a Shft-Cmd-4 copy from my desktop? Mine are in JPEG format. I need to convert it to GIF. I could add a conversion module to the original little program (which could even convert to PNG). Ah, but the color of my Desktop varies or is, at least, not an 8-bit color (thank God). Then I could add a module that 'de-dithers' the color.
Relation to Unix
In old Unix these would be filters, something like this:
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Macs
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APL
My preferred language is the APL variant 'J', which I use daily to test hypotheses, as I think about my research. Such a language, by the way, is great for pre-school children who can't read words yet. (Whether they'll ever be able to punctuate English correctly is another matter.)
http://www.jsoftware.com
Need for another Language
However, I need eventually to convert my scientific algorithms to run in a Linux shell, using Linux's operators (such as 'filter' or 'tee') to combine the little modules.
I'm now considering (re-)learning the platform-independent 'Java' language, and developing applications on Sourceforge. This way, scientific (ie. free) calculations could be integrated into online scientific papers and placed on other websites as well.

Kappy,
Sorry, I thought the question would be a common one confronting casual programmers. With such a variety of popular languages, there is likely no simple answer. I rescind the question with an apology and shall investigate my own problem myself. Sorry.
The question was, being tired of using the wrong but kindly written MacOSX applications, is there a programming language I can learn now that will also serve me in the future?
1. Now I need to write, for example, the program described to process photographic images, whose structures are arrays of arrays. Is there a language with such structures less bloated than C++?
2. Old APL an object-orented language designed for quickly writing algorithms for exactly these structures (the common structures in engineering, science, and mathematics).
3. Is there an object-oriented language for such structures, also used to write MacOSX applications, that one can learn to correctly build applications in 6 months (rather than 6 years)? This means strong typing, static type checking, automatic memory management, &c. An 'interpreter' as well would be nice!
4. For science, it must be a high-level, very portable but standard language that can be compiled into (say) byte code for a standard virtual machine that is on all computers. For image processing on my own little Mac, it needs to be compiled all the way to Altvec-optimized machine code.
5. Is there now such a beast? One that can be hooked at a low level with libraries (written in C or C++), and hooked at a high level to an OOUI (Aqua, in particular)?
Sorry, I expected an engineer to say:-
'Sure, MacOSX's compiler is based on the GCC, which contains a compiler for Java. It hooks at many levels. We use it to send code to afilliates around the Globe; and even Windows users haven't complained.
'Several lexical analyzers have even been written (in C) for Java: so you can parse your spam as well!'
But I don't know the above to be true.
I was looking for reasons why Java might not be the better of the GCC languages for 'amateur programming'. I'm sorry I 'passed the buck', when I shouldn't have. This footwork I'll do myself after I can again install /Developer.
Things I expect to be common problems never are.
Thanks anyway.
Bruce

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Hi, Adarsh.
It sounds like you should earn either the older MCPD certification title or the newer MCSD certification title.
There are different types of each of these two (2) titles. Learn more about them using the following links:
Older VS2010/.NET 4.0 MCPD:
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Newer VS2012/.NET 4.5 MCSD:
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The four (4) MCSD titles cover Web Development, Store Apps, SharePoint, and ALM with TFS.
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http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/sql-certification.aspx
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I want to focus my attention (and money) on learning one main thing and mastering it but aren't sure which to go for. I like using flash and love all of it's capabilites but also realise how important it could be to maybe master photoshop and look at digital art type stuff.
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I want to maybe go in to website design, but am also interested in many other things. I mean, even if I do go in to web design, should I learn flash or should I focus my attention on photoshop and HTML?
I'm not really an arty type, I don't want to just be a programmer I want to at least do some design.
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Personally, I wanted to learn everything to be as valuable as possible in not only a corporate setting, but also personal projects.
I attended Art Institute for Web Development and took classes on all the most popular platforms and applications. The list includes...
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So getting to your question about Flash...
I think it is a valuable skill set to have. I wouldn't stop at Flash though. You still need basic knowledge, if not, advanced knowledge of XHTML/CSS and PHP/MySQL because your Flash projects will most likely require those technologies to implement in real world applications.
It's a crazy journey to say the least and every day, things get crazier with technology evolving so quickly.
The topics I outlined above are things you want to have a strong foundation in.
From there you can really focus on what type of work you want to do. I pretty much do a little bit of everything but like you are wondering, it does limit how far you can master one particular thing. But with time, I believe you can master most if not all of the topics.
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Ask : waht should i learn

now that i think i have learnt the basic of java, i want to ask, is it recommended that i learn networking in java?? because now i dont really know swing..
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Are you asking "Does neworking depend on Swing?"
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