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Hey, I'm new to the programming world and was wondering, which language would be best to use/learn to make a statistics counter (minimum of 7 different options). I'm looking to make it so that at a click of a button, multiple statistics will increase, and a total for each is counted.
Can anyone help point me towards what i need to learn?
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Hey, I'm new to the programming world and was wondering, which language would be best to use/learn to make a statistics counter (minimum of 7 different options). I'm looking to make it so that at a click of a button, multiple statistics will increase, and a total for each is counted.
Can anyone help point me towards what i need to learn?
This can be really done in pretty much any language... good languages may be BASIC if you're just starting out, Java, C++, Python, etc....
UnknownCoder - Not for a website, needs to be standalone and portable if possible.
markhazlett9 - Thank you, though I'm not sure where to start. Do you know of any good free online tutorials that could help me through this.. Or if possible would you be able to give me some pointers?
markhazlett9 - Thank you, though I'm not sure where to start. Do you know of any good free online tutorials that could help me through this.. Or if possible would you be able to give me some pointers?
Thanks,
Well as for tips and things there wouldn't be too much i can do if you have no knowledge of the language. What I would recommend doing is start out going and buying a java/BASIC/C++ book and just start working through it. Since you're wanting to do this with a GUI then java is potentially the easiest for hard coding a GUI, but it does have some intermediate concepts to be able to do this. So I would grab a book(can be an ebook too) and just start working through it from beginning until you have enough skills to do what you need to do. And remember DIC is here for you every step of the way so if you run into issues as long as you have some code we can help you out. Hope this helps... Cheers
I personally would say C#, it has C+/Java syntax and it a little easier (in my opinion) for newcomers to learn. It's a powerful language, is strongly typed and easy to learn. The drawback is it runs on x86 (Windows) architecture only (unless you look at the Mono project). If you want something that will run on multiple platforms I would look into C++ or Java, both of which will run on most (if not all) platforms out there.
As @markhazlett9 pointed out this can be done in almost any language, it all boils down to personal preference really, as in today's day and age most language are capable of just about the same tasks. Just my 2¢
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I would go for python myself as I learnt this as my first language. Now I am onto c++ but it seems a little heavy for a statistics counter. But c++ would work well too. I suppose you could use the visuals but I am a little in the dark about them.
If you want a good python tutorial go to http://www.sthurlow.com/python/ as I find that this is quite a good tutorial for beginners.
C# is goooood for beginners. Personally I started with C++, it's great preparation for the world of coding. Makes you think more, since you often have to write your own way of doing things.
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As @markhazlett9 pointed out this can be done in almost any language, it all boils down to personal preference really, as in today's day and age most language are capable of just about the same tasks. Just my 2¢
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This post has been edited by gabehabe: 4 Mar, 2009 - 04:50 AM
ASP.Net and C# is good language for starting in software industry. Hanu Software is an offshore software development company in India, have professional software developers working in ASP.net and other language like JAVA, PHP.
This post has been edited by smithroy9: 27 Apr, 2009 - 11:28 PM
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