[Mark Hamilton]

The Java syntax borrows heavily from C, so I dont think you have to much to worry about. The major difference is C is a much lower level language, and thus the compiler won't do as much of the work for you. IFI will be supplying a default program that will handle all the tricky I?O parts, so I wouldn't worry to much. Once you've learned one language well, you should be able to adapt to another language fairly quickly.