[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MIGhunter:
you can ignore this. I'll leave the thread so people can learn from my mistake.

The error was because Java is case sensitive, unlike CFML. so linearLayout is not the same as LinearLayout.

I just started playing around with Android Development. I'm using Eclipse. I'm using the 1st set of Tutorials on the Android Development page from the Eclipse install. I'm on the Edit Form and Button part of the tutorial. When I try to run it in the Emulator or on my Sensation 4g, it 'expectantly shuts down'. Here is the LogCat which I'm not familiar with reading yet (any debugging tutorials would be awesome).

04-04 21:24:28.733: E/Trace(908): error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
04-04 21:24:29.703: D/AndroidRuntime(908): Shutting down VM
04-04 21:24:29.703: W/dalvikvm(908): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a71930)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.myfirstapp/com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class linearLayout
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2180)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2230)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1234)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class linearLayout
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:698)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:466)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:270)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1881)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:12)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5104)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1080)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2144)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	... 11 more
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.view.linearLayout" on path: /data/app/com.example.myfirstapp-1.apk
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:65)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:552)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:643)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:66)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:660)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:685)
04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908):	... 20 more

I'm not sure if the hangup is

04-04 21:24:29.738: E/AndroidRuntime(908): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.view.linearLayout" on path: /data/app/com.example.myfirstapp-1.apk

or if something in the beginning is causeing the error. I followed the tutorial to the letter so I'm not sure why the class isn't there. Any suggestions?

Sorry for the noob question, I know you guys have probably answered a million of these type of questions. Everyone has to start somewhere...