Programming Help

Blakespops

Hi,

I am wishing to make a programme for the computer and am not too bad at some aspects but wondered if they are any tutorials available that I could try and if so what are the best.

googler

What kind of program? Stand-alone, or an add-on to something like Word, Excel?

What kind of computer? PC, Mac, Linux, or something else, like an IBM mainframe?

Which language? Visual Basic, C++, Cobol, Pascal, Fortran.....?

Blakespops

googler wrote: »

What kind of program? Stand-alone, or an add-on to something like Word, Excel?

What kind of computer? PC, Mac, Linux, or something else, like an IBM mainframe?

Which language? Visual Basic, C++, Cobol, Pascal, Fortran.....?

Back in the day I was Very Good on BBC Programming and was just after passing my time with a stand alone programme I can run on my PC(windows 7)

I have built a web site although that was starting with HTML programme that had templates as a base to build from.

I am just after one that I can do some mathematical problem solving. so I can put in the variables and filter out what I am wishing to be removed before getting the result. (share Price related)

Basically I wish to have it so the fees I would be paying are taken into account and it will tell me what price my break even price would be, alone with tracking average price over given periods etc.

Have looked at some programmes you can get but none have the fees you pay taken into account and thought I would do one for myself.

closed

Easier to use a spreadsheet, or a website portfolio tracker

openoffice, moneyextra, shareprice.co.uk etc.

or you could try these.

http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/about

http://www.justbasic.com/index.html

googler

Yup; whichever spreadsheet program is suitable for your platform.

Blakespops

As I say none of the online ones cover what I am after and spreadsheet is only good for what you have and not tracking prices. I already have my shares in my online dealing account and can track them with them but am wishing to go further on analyzing the prices than online tracking programmes allow. The issue is not what is easier to use a spreadsheet etc, it is a desire to attempt to build my own programme and use this as my first attempt at programming and my question was about any tools out there that are good at teaching the basics

closed

Google the language you are interested in, the web is full of tutorials, but you need to know which interpreter/compiler you are planning to use, spreadsheets are programmable too.

Blakespops

as am old school guess BASIC would work best. although if have to could do JAVA but one error in that costs weeks to find

oh to have my old Commodore 64 back, would be in heaven then

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_system_emulators#Commodore_64

bonzer

Maybe try Perl, Python or some other scripting language. They're easy to get into, run on most platforms and have massive support and documentation on the net. Just google perl or python tutorial to get going.

If your doing some truly deep maths, there are mathematics specific languages e.g. Matlab (or Octave is a free clone).

RobTang

Tracking tickers is a bit anoying because the number of free apis are somewhat limited, the yahoo data feed is ok but only for stocks on the main exchanges, a lot of minor instruments you will not be able to get qutoes for. (this is doable in a excel btw)

Otherwise you have to use some roundabout method which is somwhat out of scope for learning.

Java or C# is probably best to start with.