Programming help: How do I make a simple program? - Help.com

What language do you want to use?

If you want a program that’s useless for anything but the basics, and simple enough that a kindergarten drop-out could use, go for visual basic.

if you get the 2008 express version it is free

http://www.microsoft.com/Express/VB/

pretty easy to do simple stuff, drag and drop for the GUI and the script side isnt that hard to learn either

i used to use batch files for that. you can set a loop of pulling up a dir and it looks like its processing stuff or something… people think your some kind of hacker…

- Fire

I would recommend python. Also free, and incredibly simple, easy to learn, etc. Python.org

You can probably manage a fun little program like the one you are describing in just a few python lines. Well, the processing info deal could be a little more involved, depending on how fancy you want to make it, but the main segment is fairly simple. Something like:

print “Enter username:”
Username = raw_input()
print “Enter password:”
Password = raw_input()

correctname = “AgentSmith”
correctpwrd = “omegaforth”

if Password == correctpwd and Username == correctname:
—–Login=true
—–ScrollingText() #you will need to figure out how to write this bit yourself :)
else:
—–print “access denied”

This is sorta a very basic sketch of what it might look like, and probably contains errors, but hopefully it will show that programming isn’t too complex to try. You’d probably want to enclose the whole thing in a “while” statement so that it keeps repeating until you get the login info right, and you’d need to define what ScrollingText() does, and how. “—–” is meant to stand for basic indentation.

In any case, whatever language you choose, welcome to the marvelous and exciting world of programming!

HELLO WORLD

You can use Batch Files (they normally just run in the cmd window), but they’re pretty annoying.

Don’t use python; it’s, almost literally, crap. The difference is that it is virtual.

Also don’t use VB 2008, use 2005. It’s more reliable and there are more tutorials and things for it.