What language should I use?

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Hey, I'm supposed to be developing a program that creates a feed from an Excel spreadsheet to a kind of pressure gauge looking display on a Portal website for roofers. They will be gauged in 3 categories updated daily. There is someone who enters information manually into a spreadsheet every day which will be determining the gauge.

I'm completely in over my head but I am a quick learner and am resourceful. I just need for someone to more or less point me in the right direction for this in terms of what language would be the most efficient. Also, generally how I would create a feed from the spreadsheet that would automatically update the gauged display on the portal website? Or would I have to have them enter the data manually into a separate program?

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I've got an opportunity to begin a career in programming and this would be my first real step.

Thanks.

Posted 20-May-15 8:39am

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Tomas Takac 20-May-15 18:52pm

Re technology/language I would choose Microsoft's simply because it's the only one I really know. But it doesn't mean it's necessarily the best for your task. Sergey is right, the choice is yours.

Re application architecture: if there is somebody entering numbers into excel then they can enter those numbers into your app directly. After all you are building a web app, so providing a management screen is not such a big deal. Definitely less work than parsing excel files.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-05-20T09:03:00

The one you prefer. I am serious. Anyway, if you are thinking about programming career, you will need to learn quite a few, so you are not deciding what language to choose, you are only deciding which one to use at this moment. Try not to start with PHP. Yes, this language is presently the most popular in Web programming, but this is really an ersatz language, by-product, and I don't know what else. It can kill the taste for nice style and accurate work, which is very dangerous for a beginner.

I would generally recommend to avoid starting with Web programming. It would be much better go in for Web programming when you are fairly experienced and successful in general programming. We already have too many Web anti-programmers just making mess and contaminating the Web with it. And I would do my best to skip such thing as Office programming. You decide though.

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st3car · Answer 2 · 2015-06-21T10:56:00

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For sure several languages may be useful to reach your objective...but I suggest you java for the number of specific library you can find and for the simplicity and immediately in which you can write your code

Posted 21-Jun-15 10:56am

st3car