On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Adrian Klaver wrote:
GUI's only get you so far. At some point you will need to dive deeper to get what you. I am mostly a self taught programmer(biologist by training) so I understand the hill you are facing. The language I use is Python, mainly because to me it made sense. For you it might be a good choice as it is quite prevalent in the data analysis world. There are a lot of places to turn to to learn how to use it. My suggestion for seeing if it is something you can use would be to start here:
+1 for Python
Go through at least the Introduction to Python part. The rest has to do with Django, Web framework built using Python.
Mike Driscoll has a blog (I don't recall the URL) and his Python 101 is a very good introduction. There are also a lot of online tutorials. I would suggest starting by learning a general programming language (specifically Python). That puts you in a learnable mindset. SQL is a set-oriented language and is quite different from procedural, object oriented, and functional languages. You can learn on your own, and help is readily available on various maillists. I'm an ecologist who learned FORTRAN (mostly self-taught) in grad school, C on my own, and then moved to Python on my own. If you're interested in data analysis Python's the way to go. Your description of what you want to accomplish can be achieved using three components: postgres (and SQL as the language it uses), Python as the glue between the database back end and the user interface, and a widget set (PyQt5 is a good one) for the UI. If you want to develop a web-based application then replace the UI with django. Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
