opposite of progress

spent the evening mucking about with microsoft's visual c++, which is (supposed) to allow creation of windows in a visual format...  which technically works, but since i don't have any of the underlying knowledge of the code or how it works, i don't know how to get anything to actually work beyond that.  so, back to square one.

still, i think i'm making small amounts of progress.  i'm learning bits and pieces, figuring out what i need to look for to find a better tutorial that teaches me the next small step i need to figure out how to get a functioning window.  it's slow.  i think doing this in the middle of writing content was a good move - i can write content when i get sick of learning how to make a window, and go back to learning how to make a window when i get sick of writing content.