If you understand one programming language, you pretty much know them all, all you gotta change is the syntax a lil bit, and function calls. At least that's what I've been told and I've seen in C/C++/VB/and the bits of Java I've looked at. If you wanna get ahead with the class, just look around online, look at some code, see if
www.free-ed.net has any books about it.
Hopefully that helps.