What programming language/dev environment for project

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Hello,

I'm brand new into programming world. Had some Pascal (high school), C++, Java experience. But it was just a base and ofc I can code some simple objects and make my own calculator app :)

Looking for advise, cause I would love to learn way more about programming, but I don't know which way should I go.

I would love to make a project, virtual game, as my learn study.

League system for individual sport. Profiles, ranking, challenges, win/lose system, point collecting (like in football table), score collecting (players input). So what would you advise me to start with?
I know its complicated and it will take a lot of time.
From my perspective I need some date base programming language, tell me if I am wrong or is it right?

What I have tried:

I was thinking about PHP, but I would love to hear if its a good way?

Posted 25-Sep-19 7:28am

Inve3

Updated 25-Sep-19 8:18am

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I'd say go with C#: it's available for free as part of Visual Studio Community Edition, and thanks to Xamarin (also included in VS) and Mono it will run on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and as a website. PHP won't.

It's also a lot closer to the Pascal / C++ / Java you have already met than PHP.

Posted 25-Sep-19 8:02am

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MadMyche · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-25T08:18:00

The main considerations for what you want to do is going to be made up of a few things:

1. Your comfort in any particular language will be a huge factor in which is best for you. I am not saying to not use what you don't know, because if you are willing to learn and put the time into a new language then that would be fine as well.

2. Distribution. Are you going to keep this for yourself, or are you going to provide this to others. And if you are, are you going to limit by OS?

3. Display Medium. Some language choices are better suited for one medium vs another. For a desktop application you could use VB, but if it was inside of an Office doc you would use the VBA variant; and if it was web-based you would use ASP.

You mention PHP which would be best suited for a web application.

You also mention a database... would it be centralized or would each copy of the program have it's own copy locally?