I'm interested in developing a simple budgeting program for Windows to help track savings for a new home. The tool should allow me to input information like my salary, monthly savings, interest rate, and house price. Ultimately, I want it to calculate how long it will take to save a certain amount for a down payment that results in a specific monthly mortgage payment. I've managed to do this with Excel, but I'm eager to create a standalone program. My programming experience is minimal, and I'm unsure about how to go about building the GUI. Is Visual Basic a good starting point for this?
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Have you considered building a front-end web app instead? It only requires basic HTML and JavaScript, plus it's accessible on phones too!
You could always stick with a simple Excel sheet for now. It might be easier while you're figuring things out!
If you’re not familiar with programming languages, I’d recommend starting with Python and its PyGUI API. It's friendly for beginners and gives you a lot of functionality to play around with.
I know some C++. Do you think Visual Basic and WinForms would be suitable?
Thanks! If it's a web app, would it be free?