Need to create a program

[Titancow]

Hey guys,

I have pretty much zero experience with coding, but I have a really good idea for a pretty big application and I was wondering where I could get some guides on where to start.

The program would have lots of text fields and would use arithmetic. I don't really mind what type of code I use (PERL, Java etc.).

Thanks,
Tom.

[v0id]

So it's GUI you're going to make?

You can pick almost every language that supports GUI, because all decent languages have support for arithmetics. Java could be a choice, but you could also pick a .NET-language. My suggestion would be that you choose C#. It have some great tools, and it should be relative easy to do what you want.

Good luck!

[Titancow]

Thanks, I'll look into C#.

[kishjeff]

this is a rather old thread, and pretty general. Of course your tools depend on:
- the effort you are willing to put in
- the resources you have available to you
- what the target platform and audience are.
- your time frame.

good luck, and let us know what you actually did and how things turned out.

[Titancow]

I'm making a program for balancing cash books, ledgers and other business documents, except it automatically balances columns, and has nifty things like that.

It's a side project though, and I haven't workedon it in a while, I do have the general layout though, I just need to do a lot of the actual programming and stuff.