Thursday, February 21, 2008

My new program

Ok. So I started my project itself today. I decided to make a very cool program.
For that, I think I would need to learn about databases. As I need to store a lot of information in kind of a structured way, I think a database wouldn't be a bad idea. I found some online tutorials on those:
http://www.geekgirls.com/databasics_01.htm
I'm going to research that a little. I am still going to use the shaping of windows code, I think it's really cool. I don't know about control arrays, I guess I wouldn't need them as much. But even if I do, I found something interesting today. The member variables that I found once and didn't know what to do with them, could actually serve as a way to establish an array. They are kind of like pointers, but to the controls, and they can be represented as an array, so. That works for me.

1 comment:

GeekTeach said...

Databases!!!
That is fantastic. I was hoping you would do that this year, and you have come to it on your own. The SQL language is one of the few that actually works across several types of databases.

MySQL has just been purchased by SUN, and there is a huge push to get this open-source database further to the forefront.

Regardless, starting with general database structures and concepts is a great idea. Database setup, management, and translation is also the most marketable computer jobs in the world - since efficient information access and transfer is a crucial part of the Info-Age.

~Richard.