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Hi, |
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I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of |
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smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little |
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guidance and then possibly join another email list that's more |
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appropriate. |
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These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have |
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data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make |
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decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting |
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Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I want to do. |
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The math's not difficult, but I need to look at various ranges, |
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manage, sort and extract data from arrays, and amd then create charts. |
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This is getting pretty difficult in Excel these days so I've started |
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to wonder about writing a simple app to do what I need to do. It's not |
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generally difficult stuff but it requires (or I prefer) a lot of small |
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charts. I'm vaguely familiar with C & Pascal, but haven't programmed |
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in years. I don't know C++ at all. I was trained as an EE. |
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So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly |
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programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his |
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feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like something fairly light - |
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performance probably won't be a huge problem - that I could run under |
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Cygwin or maybe compile to run native in Windows should that ever |
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become useful. For now it's probably a relatively simple Linux app |
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that I'd likely run once a week on Saturday morning on 15 to 20 |
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databases I collect on Friday night. |
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If you can recommend a good list or forum for silly folks like me - |
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know nothing about programming and have to ask lots os stupid beginner |
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questions - I'd greatly appreciate that also. |
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Thanks in advance! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |