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Programing C++/Java for linux?
savet:
First, my background. I'm pretty proficient with PHP/MySQL, ASP, Perl, and Visual Basic. But the extent of my object oriented programming with a GUI is with Visual Basic.
I wrote a program for Windows in VB6, and wish to rewrite it for Linux with additional functionality. The program will store contact information for potential customers in a database. The database will also contain certain demographic/financial information such as mortgage balance, # of credit cards, home value, income level, etc. The program will allow the user to query the database and export a list of individuals matching certain criteria, suppressing against people previously identified as being on the state/federal do not call lists or as having innacurate contact information. I guess my question is actually multi-part.
1. Which would you recommend as a first language to learn to write a program with a GUI in Linux?
2. What books or web resources would you recommend?
3. Are there any prerequisites you recommend I read up on first?
4. I'm leaning towards a MySQL database because I am already familiar with it. Would another database be more appropriate for either of these two languages? Or would another programming language such as Python be more appropriate for a MySQL database?
Thanks in advance for your opinions and help.
Laukev7:
Moving this to the programming section.
flap:
If it's just a database frontend why not do it in PHP?
Otherwise, does the language you use have to be object-oriented? If you use GTK you could do it in C/C++ or Python; possibly others. If you do it in java then it's irrelevant what platform you're developing it for/on.
insomnia:
You could indeed write it entirely in PHP.
This mostly depends on how big it is.
If it's big, PHP can be rather slow and cause a very long upload time for your users.
In that case you could split it in a client(C/C++) and a server(PHP) part.
For the sever part, you can easily mix it with Java ,perl and others (I don't recommend ASP on SQL.).
WMD:
New idea for if Rio comes back:
GAMBAS. http://gambas.sourceforge.net
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