Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Which programming language should I learn for this project?...?

I am looking to convert my spreadsheets which are used to estimate the costs and time for custom engineering projects. I would like to develop a GUI interface which could possibly incorporate some database information to perform calculations. I am willing to spend a fair amount of time to learn a programming language. What would be the best language to learn for this project?

5 Answers

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Java, or if it's just going to be used in Windows C# is a good option.

    Source(s): SWAGG
  • 9 years ago

    I'm going to second James and say Java. It's more powerful than Visual Basic, easier to learn than C++ and less platform dependent than C#. It's currently the most-used general-purpose language out there and certainly suited for your project. You didn't mention whether your GUI interface is going to be browser-based or not, but Java will suit either.

    As a bonus, it's probably the most useful language to have in your skill-set once this project is done.

  • Jeff
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I second using Java but I should also add you might consider MySQL or some kind of SQL as your database...

    If you don't do this then you might as do your project in MS Access (yuk).

  • 4 years ago

    there is not any absolute, primary 'easiest' language. some are uncomplicated for some people to study yet no longer quite uncomplicated for others, and vice versa. Python is taken into consideration one of the finest to study and noticeably counseled for beginners. consumer-friendly is likewise extremely uncomplicated to study, yet some people have confidence consumer-friendly teaches programmers undesirable behavior and could subsequently be prevented; i'm not sure on that myself. Pascal is correct to the comparable as consumer-friendly, a minimum of in accordance with what I submit to in suggestions from my short fling with it. C is a little extra frustrating (yet superb and valuable), and C++ is a little extra frustrating than that (OOP could be grotesque to study for a beginner). some style of assembly could be seen 'maximum complicated,' even though it quite is quite merely time-ingesting to code in. you apart from could could desire to be very careful approximately using your information in its appropriate context, or you will get wildly unpredictable effects (some are merely incorrect on a similar time as others can corrupt different information or perhaps crash your equipment). i in my view choose assembly because of the fact it removes each and all of the abstraction different languages introduce. i can manage thinking procedurally better than an OOP suggestions-set. you're able to additionally do programming with a hex editor, while you're so vulnerable. that could desire to in all threat be the main complicated suggestions-set in need of using binary. to try this you will in all threat could desire to write your guy or woman compiler/assembler, and you will could desire to have the two an mind-blowing memory or an extremely thorough yet nicely prepared reference instruction manual.

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Try C++ and Visual Basics...

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.