5 replies to this topic

[wandj]

Hi, I want to write a program specific to my business. I am pretty computer literate and don't really have the funds to pay someone to write it for me, so I decided to take some college classes and try to do it myself. I don't want to waste my time learning a language the won't work for my program though, so I thought I would ask here before I get started.

I want the program to be a totally web based program. It is for a school and I want it to be a database for our students/classes as well as our accounting program (my background is accounting). I want my parents to be able to go online to pay their tuition and have it posted to my accounting program as well as manage their classes etc. I need to be able to process accounting and class reports as well as group emails.

Can anyone tell me which programming language would best work for this type of web program?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

[Ancient Dragon]

Don't other universities already have such a program? I would be surprised if that program(s) has not already been written.

[WingedPanther]

You could do this in any web language. What you will probably want to learn, to minimize costs, is PHP, SQL (MySQL dialect), HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Also, realize that it will probably take you 1-2 years before you can actually write this program.

[toxifyshadow]

Agreeing with Winged, learn sql and php in classes, skiping html is fine, just learn online. I was able to learn both html and css by playing neopets lol. If you are going to learn online I would suggest w3schools, I learned javascript from them. Html,css,and javascript should be easy to learn, but php and sql you are going to want classes. Also if you want help with your program, you should ask CodeCall.

[cdg10620]

Williammurray said:

I am english speaker and using english language.

I think he meant programming language. lol

[WingedPanther]

Williammurray was just a spammer.