blelisa

Hi All, Hope everyone is having a good day.
I have a question, I am looking to branch out on my own and learn a new computer language. My future dream is to design a Customer Management software tool all myself then market it. I know I will be using a SQL database. I don't know alot about computer programming (this is gonna be an ongoing project for quite a few years) What programming language would you recommend learning? C, C#, C++, VisualBasic, VisualBasic.net, etc........? What are major differences? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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Grich

VB.NET is used alot in the industry, same with JAVA (In the way of dealing with SQL databases).
Commerical software is mostly written in C++. I have never used C++ with SQL though.

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lectricpharaoh

I'll toss off a recommendation for C#, but that's mainly because I'm a C# fanboy. Really, though, you can do this in any language. However, some languages make it easier than others, and your target platform will be a big factor too. If portability is the biggest concern, go with Java. If ease of development is primary, and you're mainly targeting Windows, go with a .NET language like VB.NET or C#. If it's a web application, then PHP is probably a good choice (never used it myself, but it's pretty common for web stuff), though you could also use a .NET language (with ASP.NET) or Java. You could even do a web app in a language not usually geared to this sort of thing, but of course, it will be harder.

If you are going with Windows, I would really advise a .NET language. You'll get a visual forms designer (no mucking about with guesswork in placing elements of your GUI), a nice IDE if you use Visual Studio (some of the third-party ones look nice too, but I've never used them yet), and a wizard to generate boilerplate DBMS-interface code (great for newbies).

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