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Andrew Jones

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Jan 13, 2017

What programming language should I learn if I want to create an application which runs data, inputted by the user, sorts it depending on the data types and variables?

I would prefer to develop it on a website.

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Marco Alka

Software Engineer, Technical Consultant & Mentor

Jan 13, 2017

If you want to develop that application on a website, your only way to go is JavaScript or a language which can be transpiled into JS. Since you do not seem to know a language, yet, I highly recommend starting out with the basics, though, so my recommendation is: learn JavaScript in order to build your application. You will also need HTML and CSS for the website part, though :)

Andrew Jones

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Jan 13, 2017

Hi Marco! Ty for the reply. I actually know Java, PHP and HTML/CSS rather well and I considered trying out javascript but i thought it was strictly a web design language. But I'll try it out! Thanks!

@Baboshka1 ah, no, JavaScript is a full-fledged programming language which allows you to do about anything you might ever want to do: animate websites, write servers (Hashnode runs on a JavaScript backend), desktop applications (for example Atom Editor, Microsoft's Visual Code Editor), mobile apps (stuff, like Series Seven App), operating systems (follow node-os, it's quite exciting) and micro controllers (program your Arduino with Johnny-Five or Cyclon). Anything is possible!

Well, not everything does make sense (even though it's impressive!), but hey, at least JS prototyping is really fast!

Theresa

Front End Web Developer (JS/HTML/CSS @ JAVA) : Predict the future by inventing it

Jan 13, 2017

With this spec you could get away with using ANY programming language or framework... keep it simple... but if you want to work on the web, then I suggest html forms with an underlying db so you can save data. You will need to post tge data over HTML, so you can use any framework that will allow you to do that.

Andrew Jones

Thanks for the input Theresa :)

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