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Originally Posted by humphshumphs
I need to write a very simple application for a family member, and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for what program to use.
A little background:
Application to run on a Windows 10 PC as a standalone application (not really wanting to run something else first)
Needs to store information in a database
Needs to print a single page report when required.
What do you use or recommend (want free or cheap if possible, as not likely to write too many applications lol)
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A bit of a chicken and egg question - If you don't know where to start then you've got a whole lot of learning to do first. By which time you'd have enough idea to make a better question and ask at the right forum for software development. If all you want is a simple report based on some data, then Excel
might be all you need. A more complex solution might require a proper database - and there's many different ones to choose from. And any programming language to write the application in - some will be better suited than others...
Do you know how to design a database? How much data are you considering working with? how many tables (at a guess) etc.. etc.. Where will the data come from, how will it get into the database? What prior experience (relevant to software engineering) do you have?... and more.
Throwing any solution suggestion out without more information than 'produce a report from some data' is really quite meaningless I'm afraid. You can develop in many programming languages/ data driven environments for many solutions. Choosing the optimal solution is the tricky bit, that requires a lot more information & research.
If you think that what you are attempting is simple requiring very little data manipulation then try a spreadsheet. - Although that wouldn't strictly meet your 'standalone application' requirement.