yeah. I want to learn more, but for whatever reason I learn way better in a school setting. That same reason is kind of holding me back from doing lots of projects for myself, in a way. To me, starting a project now with no 'cool' knowledge (like how to actually make programs do stuff that isn't just the basics - loops, prints, etc) would be un-satisfying. I want to know cool methods and algorithms and stuff. And while they probably exist out there, I really need some sort of context with them.

Like carter suggested, I will probably just stick to my school and see where it takes me. If there is an area they don't cover enough then I will make up for it myself. I would feel more comfortable learning something outside of class when I at least fully understand one or 2 languages and all the cool things you can do with programming.

Well I dunno about that.

What kind of development are you talking about? PHP is the backbone of the web, broski. I wouldn't really recommend C# for the web; that's just silly. Dynamic languages like Ruby or Python is the way to go if you aren't conforming to PHP.

Your friend is right, this is really good book.

Ive read Pro C# 4.0 by the same author
Learned alot in short time
But
Book quite quicky moves from beginner stuff to advanced topics - you have to have some understanding of basics before starting with this book, otherwise you might get lost with anything above chapter 6

Not sure I agree... ever hear of a web service? Java and c# are huge web languages for enterprise applications. Incredible power and flexibility, you would be surprised. Check out java ee or wcf for .net