Hello all. I have a question about the best tools to use for a project I have. I recently went to a conference for private teachers and found that many of them were interested in a custom application designed specifically for keeping track of students, teachers, and schedules. Many of the people said they were willing to buy something from me if I could develop it! This was a conference where I was one of the very few software people (my mom is a teacher and she suggested I go).
At any rate, now I'm trying to determine what is the best way to develop this application. It will be a stand alone application with a database backend that needs to be part of the executable. Now I have Access, but I've never used it. I normally use PHP and MySQL on Linux to develop web based apps just for me and just access them through a web browser on my Windows machine (my Linux box doesn't have a monitor hooked up). I've also used VB before, but I just used it to create a front end (I used a perl executable on Windows for the backend - the VB buttons just called the perl executable). I know C++, but I'm not exactly a fan of doing User interfaces in C++, but if that's the best way I'd like to know.
If someone has a suggestion of something I haven't mentioned here, feel free to suggest. Thanks.
Darryl
At any rate, now I'm trying to determine what is the best way to develop this application. It will be a stand alone application with a database backend that needs to be part of the executable. Now I have Access, but I've never used it. I normally use PHP and MySQL on Linux to develop web based apps just for me and just access them through a web browser on my Windows machine (my Linux box doesn't have a monitor hooked up). I've also used VB before, but I just used it to create a front end (I used a perl executable on Windows for the backend - the VB buttons just called the perl executable). I know C++, but I'm not exactly a fan of doing User interfaces in C++, but if that's the best way I'd like to know.
If someone has a suggestion of something I haven't mentioned here, feel free to suggest. Thanks.
Darryl