1. A picture is worth 1,000 words. A word is worth 1,000 build errors.

2. Flash is not really a programming language.

3. Java and Javascript are two different things.

4. Copy code. Everyone does it.

5. Don't copy from the book, you dolt, those examples never really work.

6. Visual Basic.Net is for sissies. It's really easy, though.

7. Learn VB.Net before attempting Java.

8. You don't have to know Java to make an Applet.

9. Applets pwn Win Applications.

10. If you can't use it practically, they probably teach it in school.

11. Chapter 12 (the chapter you'll never get to) is where you learn all the fun stuff.

12. The chapter you'll never get to.

13. Discovering a new error is better than having a running program.

14. Ask the resident hacker to teach you.

51. Dumb typos are the cause of 60% of build errors.

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19. Messagebox.show("Speak to your friends in code. Of course they'll understand.")

20. Computer classes don't require much prior knowledge of maths, no matter what the book of classes says.

21. Look forward to the next edition of Sparkley's advice!