Where to go next?

[wahhaj]

Hello everyone, I've recently completed the introductory courses for computer science. Starting next week I will be taking a summer class on OOP which will most likely be the last computer science I will take at the university. I will have lots of time during this summer so I want to get something going along with my OOP class but I am not sure what topic I should study. My goal is to get good at programming in windows, for one I want to move away from console applications and use actual GUIs. I also want to learn a few scripting languages. I know c++ except objects for now, and the OOP class will be done in Java. I also know the basics of classes, like making a class, constructors, destructors, methods, some basic inheritance stuff etc. I will be programming in visual studios wherever possible. Could anyone tell me what the next logical step for me would be? Should I start learning lua or javasrcipt, should I learn how to use the MFC library, should I learn visual basic, or should I go into windows 8 app development? Also if you know of a good resource teaching this stuff please tell me. I can find concepts everywhere on the internet, what I am more interested in are practice problems.

[MRQ1]

Well for now you should stick with the language. Learn OOP use online tutorials or books and try to do things without visual studio using an editor and a compiler. OOP is c++ is different from java and so I recommend you to learn OOP use this book.
python.cs.southern.edu/cppbook/progcpp.pdf.


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