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Hi, thanks everyone for suggesting what language I should learn!(from last blog) Very very helpful!
I want to do little projects of my own, just basic projects. What I want to work on (my first one) is a software that prints out your financial statement. A user will be able to input the different data (assets, liabilities, equity) and after click of a button, it'll output a financial statement.
I'd like to work on other projects in the future as well. However, I'm not sure what application I should use for making the GUI. I am currently working with the NetBeans IDE for Java. What applications would you guys recommend? (or should I just code everything from scratch using eclipse?)
*It is my first project I want to do. It's not a school assignment.
Thanks in advance!
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I always used Eclipse, so I can't really offer TOO much help on the matter, but Eclipse didn't seem too "from scratchy" to me.
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What I meant by "from scratch" for eclipse is that I need to code every single line.
For example, I'd type "private javax.swing.JButton jButton1;" on eclipse, but I can just left click some stuff in palette on NetBeans and it'd give me the same thing.
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I always hated NetBeans and coded gui from scratch using eclipse. I dont know any other programs similar to NetBeans.
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I'm not too sure about programming as a whole, but I did learn some visual basic. That's what I'd use
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if you're set on doing a graphical interface in java (god help you), then netbeans is your best bet. there are GUI builders available for eclipse, but they aren't provided with the default JDT installation, and they aren't as nice as the GUI builder for netbeans.
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I'm throwing in a vote for hating NetBeans. Stay away from that shit.
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Netbeans is actually kind of cool, and may save you some time, but it won't save you from needing to understand how GUIs work in Swing. Making your own Swing GUI from scratch is a good experience that you shouldn't deprive yourself of by using a WYSIWYG. The Sun online tutorials are of course your best resource for first readings.
It's comparable to working with Qt for C++ in Linux, and a lot nicer than *gasp* the Win32 libraries (total shit).
If you were using C/C++ and wanted to go cross-platform with your UI, I'd recommend working with SDL (although this doesn't provide any nice GUI utilities as far as I'm aware, just gets you the window context).
+ Show Spoiler +On January 29 2010 13:54 KurtistheTurtle wrote:
I'm not too sure about programming as a whole, but I did learn some visual basic. That's what I'd use And you can shut your face! :D jk I started with VB, but lol it is SOOOO bad.
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