I wish to make a program

Posted by mikemike1239@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 8 comments

I recently finished my first college course ever. Programming with Python. It was a decent struggle.

I've had an idea for a mobile application that can simply gives random integers. My concern is that I'm not really sure what program language I should use.

I have Google flutter with Dart on my PC and was thinking that it may good to learn it as well.

Is there a preferred language I should possibly learn in order to create this program? The program will not be using math, just listing integers from a list in a random order and a random quantity of variables within the list.

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BeginningOne8195@reddit

Honestly Flutter with Dart sounds perfectly fine for this, especially since the app itself is pretty simple and it’ll give you a good intro to mobile development too.

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marrsd@reddit

If you already know Python, you might want to check out https://kivy.org/

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liquidanimosity@reddit

One thing I'll say about Flutter when I tried it a few years back for a uni project. The shear amount of brackets and indentation feels a little overwhelming. It will do the job.

Unless they have improved it since 2021/22

Dart feels very similar to c# and Java.

Tbh I have been looking at making a side loading app for my android but I was going to use Kotlin. Maybe this is an alternative you could look into.

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judyflorence@reddit

For something this small, Dart/Flutter is totally reasonable if you already have it installed; the first win is just getting a button to show a new random number. Don’t over-optimize the language choice before the tiny version exists.

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Plastic_Party_2342@reddit

flutter is actually a solid choice for this, dart isn't too hard to pick up especially after python. for something this simple you don't really need a backend at all, just dart's built in random library and a list. honestly just start building it, you'll learn faster from a real project than any tutorial

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