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Computer programming basics

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  • 15-10-2006 11:12pm
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    attica2k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭


    Hi all,
    I want to learn the basics of computer programming, my main objective is to build a programme that extracts information from different websites and put it in a differnt format like word using a computer programming...
    I was wondering can anyone recommend any good websites or online courses that i can do to achive this.

    I have very basic background knowledge in VBA and HTML...Can anyone tell me where i would start in this task

    thanks


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    Trampas
    Registered Users Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭Trampas


    I am doing a final year project on something very similar to this.

    I will be passing queries into web sites and getting the information from them queries.

    It depends on what information you are looking for and how the page is built.


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    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    I haven't much experience in the area but I believe if you Google 'page scraping' you'll find what you're looking for. It's probably a bit tough if you have no experience though. I believe the language of choice for the this operation is PHP.


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    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Yes PHP would be a good scripting language to do a task like this.


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