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I'm really confused as to where to begin. My end goal is to be able to create something like http://www.shirtmagic.com/design_and_buy.php this. My background: I've taken 2 semester of Java courses, and I have done extensive self studies in other programing languages like, C#, C/C++, Python. What book do I need to pick up to get started? Silverlight? .Net? WPF? Flash? Adobe Air? Adobe Flex? Which, what, where do I begin? Now I'm only concerned about LEARNING. I don't care if some guy on the phone won't be able to access my website or someone with mac or someone does not want to download silverlight plugin, I don't care. I want to learn and that's my goal.
Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video:
http://n4g.com/news/592585/guild-wars-2-50-minutes-of-pure-gameplay
Everything We Know about GW2:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/287180/page/1
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You're going to need to learn php, obviously. PHP is a breeze.
But, you're also going to need to have some basic knowledge in Flash ActionScript. Silverlight is primarily a video streaming framework, and not nessisarily built for interactivity.
I suggest jumping into ActionScript 3.
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-ActionScript-3-0-Colin-Moock/dp/product-description/0596526946
http://www.amazon.com/ActionScript-3-0-Cookbook-Application-Developers/dp/0596526954/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305740829&sr=1-1
I own both of those and they are both great resources.
Start from the basics and learn ActionScript and PHP, they are the core behind things like that. Once you start getting more advanced and you know the langauge inside and out, you will be able to move on to things like Flex, MySQL, and Java Servers.
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Oh it's you again ScrimMaltese Thanks dude. I started reading Microsoft Silverlight 4 step by step, pretty good. I might jump to the books you suggested.
Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video:
http://n4g.com/news/592585/guild-wars-2-50-minutes-of-pure-gameplay
Everything We Know about GW2:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/287180/page/1