I am pretty new in this game so please do not judge me harshly.
So I need to build a question/answer database for an app.
The idea is simple:
User types a question and if I have an answer in my database, it gives an answer. If I do not have an answer, it goes for my manual moderation, so I can add new answers for the future.
I do not know if someone has already build a software like this and I can just buy one, or do I have to hire someone to build one from the ground. Which language should I use? Which software?
I know that Java, C++ and SQL are most popular languages for that type of jobs, but are they the best solution or there are better languages?
I need a database that can hold a really huge amount of data.
I would really appreciate any help guys!
and if any of you can build me this database, I do not mind to hire a freelancer.
Thank you!
Best Regards,
Ayazhan.
Yes you can do it.
if you have some knowledge in SQl then you can make an local Db in your app and consume it according to requirement. The simple question and answer app contains set of predefined questions.
The above link will help you to develop this app.
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Hope you are doing all ok.
I am new to programming and I've been messing around with some things: javascript in Google app script, some python lines too, and some basic SQL skills too. I managed to create a simple system for a nonprofit organization and now I would like to learn about Wordpress and how to connect a database (phpmyadmin from xampp) to my Wordpress Frankenstein. I managed to create a simple (VERY simple) site and I've been playing a while with xampp, but now i would like to:
1- send data to my database from my Wordpress site (I know how to build a form already).
2- send data from my database to my Wordpress site.
3- edit data stored in my database using a Wordpress form.
I know there are a LOT of things involved in my questions but I just want a... mmmmmm... starting point, maybe? what should I learn, read, study to accomplish this task?
Sorry if this question is too newbie or basic for some people here but as I said before: I am learning. I've been looking around for about one month but I really don't understand how it works.
Thanks a lot guys/girls for taking the time to read my question and, more important, thank you in advance for your advice.
A great way to start learning a language/how to achieve something is to either take a course on coursera/khan academy/youtube or google it!
A few quick resources I found:
1) Working with Databases in Wordpress
2)How to build a Wordpress Database Table
3)Beginners Wordpress Database Guide
Hope it was helpful!
PS:First Answer, if anything is wrong with this please let me know!
The situation each and every of us faced when we have been started !
Lets share my learning from that mistake with you.
Don't focus on too many thing.
First use WordPress and all popular plugins as user and try to understand how its work and what is the usability of the plugin.
try to read some guideline , Obviously w3 school.
If you are not good in PHP , Then try to learn PHP first. Then OOP in PHP from w3 school.
After that try to start developing a small plugin like "A plugin to print Sunshine after each content " or "A Plugin to extend Wp User Profile Info Like to add Facebook link or Twitter Link"
Both having proper tutorial. So check carefully from envato tutus.
Start learning by building things , Not like start learning by only reading. And thats the journey --- let me know if there I can help you in any way :)
I know that this question is not directly related to programming in CakePHP, so I apologies in advance for that.
Is there a website/organization where I can pay for a 101 training in CakePHP with an experienced programmer who can take me from the very basics and lead through the development my first application. Teach me best practices, answering questions, offering guidance etc. Kind of like a supervisor/mentor over my work.
Please do not answer with: ‘Read the CakePHP book’ because… I am doing that, but still I have many other questions related to programing.
CakeDC does CakePHP training:
http://www.cakedc.com/training
"Additionally, if you'd prefer to have a more tailored training session
for you or your team we can provide specific training sessions as part
of our consultancy services. Please contact us for more information."
Update:
I contacted them awhile back with an inquiry to training our team, and never heard back. Not sure if they're no longer doing it, or what.
I am having trouble visualizing a Graph Database.
Visualizing an RDBMS is really very simple and I was able to understand from the first tutorial itself when I started learning it some 4-5 years ago.
But I am not able to understand Graph Databases.
I am also unable to get any good links on this topic, hence posting this question here.
Specifically, I am looking for the following:
Some really simple book/link on Graph Dbs
Atleast some knowledge on the implementation details of a Graph DB (I hope all Graph DBs would be having atleast a few basic things in common).
Thanks a lot in advance guys,
Protoge is your best bet to get started understanding ontologies.
IsaVis is a pretty common tool for visualizing you db.
Jena and Sesame are you best bets for implementations (both in java) but for prototyping python rocks and rdflib is the must use tool there.
There are plenty of others out there but those are my suggested entry vehicles. YMMV
Neo4j did a quite good job for me explaining the concept. Also starting with it to test is quite easy to do. You could start here:
http://neo4j.org/learn/
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I've been lurking around for several weeks and have been totally blown away by the amount of information and how the community quickly responds. I have noticed that questions like this typically receive sarcastic remarks and sometimes get down voted. Please bear with me as I attempt my first post :)
I little background..
I work at a tiny software company as the "QA department". Our application has a MS SQL back to store customer data and short term loan information for financial service companies. I started working here 6 years ago as a gernal technician to provide support for their call center, so I've been overly exposed to SQL and have become fairly familiar with working with it. You probably wouldn't pay me to develop a enterprise level database, but at this point I've become familiar enough to do most things in SQL.
Why I'm asking my question..
I want to develop an application to store and track our software issues and new dev. I've done research on this website along with asking around and I still feel sort of lost as to which direction I should take. I want the core of the application to be pretty basic at first, to provide various screens between my entities/modules and to create reports to show their various relationships. In the future I want it to be more complex, to provide a web portal of some sort and to start getting into various complex QA software concepts. I've read around and it sounds like I might want some variation of C/VB for the windows portion, but all of the topics have sort of overwhelmed me. Do I want to start with a more basic one that was created 20 or 30 years ago? (I think that's C and C++, right?) or a more recent one like C#? Will I be able to develop a web portal with both of these? (by web portal I'm thinking it would provide access to our database of defects and have username/password sign-in). I've seen that the various .NET languages lean more towards web development, should I start with one of these?
I am at the very beginning of this and I fully understand that I'm jumping into some deep waters here. I want to make sure I don't end up spinning my wheels and that I focus my energy on something that won't end up being a bad idea in 1 or 2 years after I start. So far I've found this website very helpful, if I can pick a direction I know I won't have any problems finding what the next step is. It might help to know that I have no formal or informal programming background (if it wasn't obvious). I'm a 27yo techie who is starting his first venture into programming, go easy on me! Thanks for taking the time to read this :)
I won't recommend that you go to C, C++, or VB. C and C++ are used mainly for developement of system software, compilers, etc. VB is deprecated by now; there is a .net version VB.NET, but my preference is C#.
Looks like you are a Microsoft shop. Steer youself towards using C#. Visual Studio provides great support for development of Web Applications with support for holding state in entities backed by MS SQL.
I would start with a simple example as given in MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd410597.aspx.
This example uses an Model View Controller based framework that is fairly easy to configure and use. They have great examples.
There is a free framework that also supports MS SQL Entity store http://www.coderun.com/ide/
Enjoy
Don't write a line of code. There are literally hundreds of open source and commercial software packages that already do what you want to do. You'd be better of spending time researching them and finding the package that most closely meets your requirements. A good solution will also be extensible enough that you'll be able to modify it to meet all of your requirements.
Since you work for a small company I can guarantee you that using your limited development hours "writing your own" will be counterproductive. You'd be better off adopting something off the shelf and becoming proficient at it. You'll learn more about developing systems like this once you've become intimately familiar with one of them.
Check out JIRA or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems for some other ideas.
For the benefit of your company I would recommend to use an existing
solution. But if you want to learn and build something of your own, I
would suggest that you check out some popular web application
frameworks, like:
Django
Ruby On Rails
Zend
Good Luck with your project!
Given that your intent is to learn and create something yourself I think you should consider a LAMP stack and PHP with one of the PHP frameworks on top (Cake PHP, code-igniter or the like).
The C++ route is a long hard way (C++ is my language of choice) to learn; as a learning experience I think you will get quicker and more satisfying results with PHP.
I also think that this is a realistic project for someone of your skills over a period of a 6 to 12 months - start with a simple requirement and then build it up to have all the features you need.
If you just want a bug tracking system obviously there are many options that won't demand any development.
How much experience do you have with things like installing Linux, Apache, Mysql, etc? If you are completely new to this, then this will be a much tougher task, because there are many layers you'll have to learn before you can even get to the point of writing an end-to-end application.
I would avoid C/C++/C# because there are a lot of things you would need to learn about basic programming before you even got to the stage where you could make database calls.
On the assumption that you don't have experience with LAMP (Linux/Apache/Mysql/(Perl/Python/PHP)), my suggestion would be to start simply, by using a scripting language like Python or Perl. You can very easily get a database connection, and start writing queries, and extracting data from there. If you are used to Windows, I would install ActivePerl or ActivePython, and start from there. You can start building a command line program that does what you want, and then from there, you can move on to creating a web application that can do something similar.
Building a web application would likely be much easier than writing a Windows application, so after you have gotten comfortable with the scripting language, that's the direction I would go afterwards.
Good luck!
Years ago (pre-web) I used to be a Fortran developer (yes it was a very long time ago!) but these days I run a small non-IT business. I would like to develop a database application for my clients to access via a browser (or maybe down the line via a mobile phone). I haven't done any programming for a while apart from some VB macros in Microsoft Excel. I would be grateful if anyone could suggest the best language/technology to learn to get me heading in the right direction.
As Neil said in his comments there are dozens of different, valid answers to this.
Usually I would suggest going with a language you already know, but neither Fortran or VBA are really suited for this task, as far as I know.
Personally I would suggest Django, which is a web framework written in Python. It simplifies many common tasks and it is very well documented.
But there are many more possible solutions.
Before I started with a framework I'd break the problem into pieces. If you've never done anything with a database before you'll find that challenging enough without piling web or mobile on top of it.
Model your problem and get a good object or data model in place. Test that thoroughly without thinking about UI. Once you have that, perhaps you can expose it as services that any UI can call.
You'll quickly become overwhelmed if you try to do it all at once.
Here's another thought: If these are paying customers, why not do yourself and them a favor and hire someone that knows how to do this? It's great that you used to write Fortran, but if you haven't kept up you won't be doing your business any good by putting out a bad first effort for customers to see.
Do it right - get a professional. Do your learning on your own time.
You can use ASP.NET and SQL Server to get something online that will allow users to edit a database table fairly easily. They've simplified it to the point where you can drag and drop the necessary controls (GridView and a SqlDataSource for instance) and define your datasource in a wizard for most simple table CRUD functionality. Basically give users the ability to edit a table without writing any code.
If you need to do something a little more difficult it's easy to write code that will add functionality to the original drag/drop stuff you did.
There are lots of good resources out there for asp.net and C# also, so it will help you get up to speed quickly.
Keep in mind that I work almost entirely with .NET/SQL Server so my opinion will be slanted towards them...