I’ve been studying C# for a hobby, and I’ve found that it is actually a lot cooler than I originally thought.  At first, I thought it was just Java, with all that and the kitchen sink thrown in.  Now I see that it is actually a fairly serious attempt at a well designed programming language that closely hugs Microsoft’s Common Language Interface.  C# does have a lot of random junk in it, but I think that it is mostly good junk, so it should be interesting to use.  If Java and C++ had a love child, C# would be it.

I am planning on using XNA to produce some output for my AI course projects.  XNA seems pretty simple, but I wish it worked on Visual Studio 2008.