The problem is that you're a self-described amateur and as such have difficulty thinking at a level above the language that you are working in. As you get bett

The problem is that you're a self-described amateur and as such have difficulty thinking at a level above the language that you are working in. As you get better, you will begin to understand that they're all very slightly different ways of doing basically the same thing and will come to think of things either at a much higher or lower level, depending on what you're doing. The language is never important... it's an implementation detail and something that you pick based what is best for the job, library support etc. Software engineering principles are universal.