My end goal is to write a plug-in for Quintessential Media Player that will either A: allow it to use any/all Winamp visualizations (optimum) or B: allow it to use the Milkdrop viz (sufficient).

Aside from some long-forgotten BASIC programming back in '91, I have no coding experience.

I'm pretty sure Milkdrop is open source and I know the QMP creator encourages user-developed plug-ins, so I could get some basic resources from/for each program, but how to I utilize them?

How do I determine if I should learn C++ or Javascript or what? If I achieve this first goal and get somewhat decent at coding in the process, I'd like to have a flexible base in learning other coding languages/approaches.

From what I hear, if you learn C++ first, Java is easier to learn.

Cool, thanks, I'll start there.