DDR2-FTW

haha very true! you can find these old things at garage sales or online for pocket change. im honestly even wondering if i should bother with the cpu, i found a 32-bit version of SQL and Python both. is there a community preference on ssd's? my aunt wants me to "upgrade" her laptop, so im just going to do the same things i did to this one, but since she's paying ill get her an ssd.

no no, the books are all donated from different places, and some i'd assume bought in bulk deals. so they all already have barcodes. i was hoping to make a program that i can run on their computer and attach a scanner wand so they can just go through and scan all the books they already have, to try and organize them better. and so people can walk in and ask if they have a book by xyz author and the clerk can do a quick check. it's a small store, so no customer computers or anything like that. it just needs to be a small (like personal, one computer) database with all their books contained in it, after they scan each one.

thats all really good advice. ill have to go have a sit down with them, and see what i would be working with. maybe they already have some kind of database just for magazines or something i can add upon.

i was thinking about an ssd, but couldn't pass up the option of a free 250gb regular hdd! haha although i guess if im just using it to learn code, i probably don't need that much space, and would benefit more from the ssd speed.

I'll have to check and see if the store has a wand, i would imagine they do. I'm just not sure how to make a database or program to store the info once it is scanned, and then have it to display later.

I found this old laptop in my dads basement (Dell latitude d820/ 2006) so i decided to revive it and give it a new purpose, using it to learn programming. it only has Python and SQL installed. while i was researching how to tear it apart and what improvements i could do, i of course found LTT on youtube, and through watching them and other tutorials i gained the confidence to tear in. Old Specs 1gb DDR2 ram 80gb hard drive original processor (idk the name) windows XP New Specs 3gb DDR2 ram (trying to find another 2gb stick to max it out at 4gb) 250gb hard drive i salvaged from an old xbox 360 I'm currently waiting on a core 2 duo t7400 processor Now rocking full windows 10 pro. it might not look like much to many of you pro builders, but I am very proud of it, and couldn't have done it without the confidence i got from watching LTT. they showed me that the inside of a computer isn't that scary.

First off, hello LTT community! I've only recently found LTT and have already learned SOOO much. I actually have a build to post in one of the other forum threads, that i was able to save and bring back to life because of what i have learned just from the Youtube channel. i'm hoping to learn even more here. So onto the question, I'm very knew to programming, I'm still learning Python from the ground up. I've been VERY briefly exposed to C# and now I'm dabbling in SQL. i want my first large program to be a book inventory program. there's a local bookstore in my area with absolutely no inventory list,(they get books by donation or buy them in bulk from liquidation sales). so i figured i would help myself out learning to program, and help out a local business. the program would need to be able to scan the barcodes of books and retrieve information from online. (i know how to access an excel file in python but thats all the further i've gotten, i have no idea how to link the internet into a program yet.) then be able to store the books in a database so that the cashier could type in an author or book title and see if they have it. any ideas on how to get started and how to even approach this would be hugely appreciated.