The Dreamer
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I used to be a programmer, back in the days of 6502 and Z80 Assembly language coding. But have never written in any high-level language (aside from a spot of BBC BASIC a long, long, time ago)!
I probably have a need to write a movie scraper to keep my ageing Mede8er players going, as the in-built scrapers no longer work properly with the various movie databases, corrupting the images. So looking to create something along the lines of YAMJ, or YADIS - but with an easy to use GUI.
Just wondering where to start?
Visual Studio seems the obvious choice, and looking at the API documentation for TVDB.com, I think the code appears to be in some sort of C - not sure yet how to 'talk' to that - but baby steps first.
Should I be looking at C#, or Visual BASIC?
If C#, where do I begin to learn this stuff? Plenty of paid for courses available - but looking for stuff I can do myself; books and the like.
So, any recommendations?
TIA
I probably have a need to write a movie scraper to keep my ageing Mede8er players going, as the in-built scrapers no longer work properly with the various movie databases, corrupting the images. So looking to create something along the lines of YAMJ, or YADIS - but with an easy to use GUI.
Just wondering where to start?
Visual Studio seems the obvious choice, and looking at the API documentation for TVDB.com, I think the code appears to be in some sort of C - not sure yet how to 'talk' to that - but baby steps first.
Should I be looking at C#, or Visual BASIC?
If C#, where do I begin to learn this stuff? Plenty of paid for courses available - but looking for stuff I can do myself; books and the like.
So, any recommendations?
TIA