Hello, i am new here... I am just about to start a new project in programming but have very limited programming knowledge and am undecisive as to which language would be best for my project.

The project that i intend to complete is a application that will be able to book clients in on days to work. There will also be a billing aspect and a quotation aspect. Ive seen a few done in ASP i think, but i have only messed around with C# and java. As i said im not a programming expert, would this application be easier to produce in C#?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
C¬Rose

Personally (if you look at my signature image you'll see why) would pick ASP.NET w/C#

Ok thank you for the super fast reply . Thanks for the advice, ok so asp is a web application program. Is it only used for application that are going to be used via the web? can i just use it to make a programmed application that will just be used and accessed on one machine. Or would youi recomend i make it accessable via a website to increase accessability?

Also another concern that i have is to the complexity of this project. Because the usual booking systems - A cinema for example, only one seat can be booked in one show at one specific time....
But with my proposed project its the employees that will be booked which means that employees A can be booked on say 10th-15th july on job A, and Employee B can be booked on job B from 11th to the 16th of july.

It makes it a lot more difficult due to the multiples of people that can be booked. Is there anything similar to what i want to do?

Can anybody help me with this?

My personal suggestion, find a good book (I recommend C#, I started out with it but before learning it completely, I moved to C++) and at least skim through it.

If this is actually going to be used (i.e. needs to be used in your business), I recommend finding some good open source software to use until you learn how to code/finish this project. This is actually a rather large task, to program a full featured app like this.

You could do this for web, since this seems like a good candidate for a PHP/MySQL app, which PHP is a really easy language to pick up and should be more than enough for your needs. Unless you just want to make a desktop app or have no web server.

We really cannot answer for you.

Since you are going to have this on only one machine, then it is your choice. It can either be a web or a windows application.

What is the scope of your project?
Do you have any additional requirements that you haven't mentioned?

Hello again sorry for the long delay. I had to wait to have a meeting with my client for the project. And it was decided that it would be a good idea to have it on one system.
A couple of questions though:
Even though it will be built on one system it will be possible to access if the system was on a networked pc right?
Also it will be availabe to the client if they were not at home and they were to use remote access?

I think i am decided, and going to use C# / Visual studio? to build the system.
Any objections to this?

The Scope?
Heres what is required for my project - (from the school client)

Keep track of billing and invoicing- so that 'Company A) are able to see which clients have paid when where and what.

A contractor booking system- to book contractors for work and also to show when contractors are available for work and when they aren’t available for work.

A quoting system- that keeps track of which quotes are sent and to which clients, and shows whether the quote has been accepted, declined or pending.

A new database- will be required as there currently is not one to handle the client details as of yet.
Possibly MYSQL or MS ACCESS.

Hope this helps with your replies.
Thanks,
C¬Rose

This post has been edited by cobalt-rose: 4 Nov, 2008 - 05:32 AM