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Simple School Planner Software

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Hi all!

 

I would really like to build a simple school planner booting straight from the desktop (doesn't need any online/sync features).  What programming language do you think I should use?  I am in school for Computer Science right now, and really don't know any languages, yet.  Anything else I should consider?  It doesn't need to be pretty - just very simple and I have specific ideas for the rest of the build.  

 

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If yu don't know any languages yet then how do you expect to make a program? just download one.

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If yu don't know any languages yet then how do you expect to make a program? just download one.

I have the time to learn one!  There are so many out there I am not sure which one to focus on...

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If yu don't know any languages yet then how do you expect to make a program? just download one.

 

 

Also, there are so many convoluted, only online ones out there, that I decided it would be fun just to make my own....the ones I DO like are paid for subscriptions...

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I have the time to learn one!  There are so many out there I am not sure which one to focus on...

Do the ones that they will teach you in your computer science class so you can study for school at the same time.

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Do the ones that they will teach you in your computer science class so you can study for school at the same time.

Unfortunately I am still going over the basics, so the only programming I know is flowchart based to give me an idea of the organization...not a bad idea though when we get into Java, etc...

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Unfortunately I am still going over the basics, so the only programming I know is flowchart based to give me an idea of the organization...not a bad idea though when we get into Java, etc...

Thats what I am saying, if you know you are going to do java in school then you can get a head start

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Thats what I am saying, if you know you are going to do java in school then you can get a head start

Yep, that is a great point

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It really would be quite a simple program - I just want two folders basically "Homework Done" and "Homework To-Do".... it would be nice as just a program that launched at startup - I could use folders on the desktop like this but that's not what I want

 

So left hand pane:

 

Classes

    --->Home work Done

    ---> Homework To Do

 

Right Hand Pane:

 

Maybe some notes on each thing

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I would suggest C#, WPF utilizing the MVVM deign pattern. It's ideally suited to this kind of task while being very industry relevant, assuming your target OS is Windows of course (you haven't specified). A useful framework for assisting with MVVM would be Prism which can be pulled in via NuGet assuming you use Visual Studio.

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I would suggest C#, WPF utilizing the MVVM deign pattern. It's ideally suited to this kind of task while being very industry relevant, assuming your target OS is Windows of course (you haven't specified). A useful framework for assisting with MVVM would be Prism which can be pulled in via NuGet assuming you use Visual Studio.

Cool, I will check this out.  All very new to me.  Right now I am using Visual Studio with Visual Basic on Windows.  I would show you a screenshot of what I have so far on here but I don't know how  :P

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There we go!

 

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Great seems that you're going in the right direction. Although you can accomplish this with VB I would encourage you to move away from it if you're able to, it's very much seen as a dying language these days (not very industry relevant any more). You should find that you're able to infer enough knowledge of C# from it to transition adequately and comfortably.

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Great seems that you're going in the right direction. Although you can accomplish this with VB I would encourage you to move away from it if you're able to, it's very much seen as a dying language these days (not very industry relevant any more). You should find that you're able to infer enough knowledge of C# from it to transition adequately and comfortably.

Cool, thanks

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