Alright before i get flamed.... i wana point some things out

I am extremly new to this...im what you might call... stupid....

I have no idea what is what, how do i install and do i "play" with it...

I was told that ".net" is the future since i just started studying "Computer Engeniring" in College and a teacher gave me this website, i decided to test my luck...

So is anyone so kindly to Tell me Evarything a "Newb" Needs to know i would greatly Apreciated ..... i need spell check on this....

But thanks who ever took the time to read this.

The first start for a Newbie would of course be to read the documentation.  Especially the installation instructions.  :)

Go to the Downloads section of this site, get the Install version and the Documentation.  Open the documentation and read the installation docs.  Install.  Play.  Get hooked.  Read the forums as you need more help.  Get even more hooked.  Try to build your own skin.  Read more forums and demo sites.  Download a bunch of test skins to analyze.  Finally get your own to load.  See how crappy it is and look for others.  Spend $300 on Snowcovered for skins you end up disliking after a day or two.  Get more involved in developing a skin and finally get one you can live with.  Buy some modules.  Decide to build your own.  Read more forums.  Buy a book.  Buy another.  Build a Hello World! module.  See how lame it is and decide to build a Web 2.0 gallery you will sell for millions fo dollars.  Buy some more books.  Write 5,000 lines of crappy code that doesn't work.  Write nine lines that do.  Buy XMod.  Get hooked on XMod.  Develop an almost passable gallery module, but without Web 2.0 features.  Buy a Web 2.0 gallery module that does what you want for less than two books cost you.  Realize that for the last 17 weeks you haven't called your girlfriend.  Call her.  Find out she left you two months ago for a carpenter who speaks broken English but calls her ten times a day.  Decide you can write a DNN module for dating sites.  Spend another seven months writing one that is almost useful.  Set up your dating site that will make you a millionaire.  Try and get a date with every girl who signs up.  When neither of them will go out with you, or the 300 other guys who signed on, close the site.  Decide you're never going to touch DNN again.  Drink four bottles of Bawls.  Figure out you can't sleep.  Go to the local bar and start ordering Jaegerbombs.  Fall off your stool, knocking over the drunk lady next to you.  Go to a motel with her.  Wake up with no pants, no wallet and no memory of the night before.  Go home and decide you can write a DNN module for finding lost wallets.  Spend three months doing this.  Figure out it will never work.  Set up a blog to get this entire process down and get your life straightened out.  Get mentioned on Slashdot.  Get Digged.  Get 200,000 regular daily hits.  Get your first check from Google for your Adsense ads.  Buy that new Acer Ferrari 5000 laptop you were jonesing for.  Start answering email from the many women who seem to empathize with you.  Figure out that one is stalking you.  Answer more of her email.  See her standing in the bushes across the street and ask her out.  Blog about dating your stalker.  Get a call from Houghton Mifflin about publishing your blog.  Go on Jerry Springer for the "I married my stalker" episode.  See your blog in print.  Realize that the 50 cents a book you get as royalties actually means something when your book hits the NY Times list and is mentioned by Oprah.  Enjoy the world tour publicizing your book in the nine languages it gets translated to.  Get a call from Tom Hanks, he wants to do the movie of your book.  Get a call from your agent, Tom Hanks decided to do another project.  Get a call from Jerry Bruckheimer that he wants to direct a movie based on your book.  Get a call from your agent that Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and John Travolta have turned down playing you, but Danny Devito is interested if the film is rewritten as a comedy that chronicles your escape from a Venezuelan prison.  Get a call from your agent that Angelina Jolie is going to play your love interest, but that Danny Devito's part has been rewritten and will now be played by a Tibetan orphan.  Get a call from your agent that Jerry Bruckheimer and Angelina Jolie have backed out due to "scheduling conflicts" and the project will now be a made-for-tv special on the Hallmark channel about the plight of a dog left stranded during Hurricane Katrina and the brave struggle of the child who finds him by searching nationwide pet adoption centers.  Find out your stalker/wife has been stalking your cousin for the last two months.  Your female cousin.  Go on Jerry Springer's "My wife is sleeping with my cousin" special.  Watch your book sales crash when your blog is picketed by religious groups opposed to abortion.  Take the $320 you have left after fending off three lawsuits from Tibetan orphans, split it with your ex-wife and download DNN 6.42 and start again.

Yep, that's about everything...

Jeff

Didn't I see that in the roadmap somewhere...?

Jeff