Help for a beginner

Hi

I am new to programming, but I want to get into it

Ultimately, there is a program that i want to work towards coding.
It is a tool to help with ordering

What I want it to do:

Have fields to enter name of person ordering, language, what the item is and date
Have an overview available of what is needing to be ordered
Be able to print onto a standard form already provided
Have a search function for items ordered, listing them from the first date

What tools and what language would be best for a program like this?
Any steps I should be taking?

I am going to purchase a book of the most suitable language for this program

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

 

For online transaction, read html, javascript, php and mySQL (or any other database). That would be enough i guess.

For higher flexibility, read about C++. It's the best programming language in the world. I think Linux was made using this language.

 

Thanks

Its not online, its just to help streamline our current system

I'll read up about C++ then

Thanks again

 

I'm reading through a beginning programming book, and I've run into a snag
Here is the code (its just a template)

// C++ code template
#include <iostream.h>
void main()
{
// code goes here
}

And i'm using the Borland Compiler

I get this error:

Error E2209 c:\programs\C++\Ctemplate.cpp 2: Unable to open include file 'iostream.h'
*** 1 errors in Compile ***

Help? The book doesn't give an explanation for this error (it says that iostream.h is included automatically or ignored)

 

C++ is terrible for beginners. I only managed to learn C++ in university, and with a teacher next to me helping.

You should start with a more friendly language.

I've started with pascal, but that was a long time ago.

Maybe VisualBasic.net is better to learn how to code. or C#. C# have all the beautiful syntaxis of C++, but it a lot easy to code, less rare errors

Just download Visual Studio Express, and get a book