by scorch- » Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:39 pm
That sounds like a lot of work if you're going to have actual secure accounts to log in to. If by login you just mean open up a utility and it connects to the server, that would probably not be too bad.
There are probably APIs to do most of what you're talking about doing, so I would search for things like Twitter API and write a module that posts some input to twitter. Then put together a module that handles the input from a user. Then put together the interface that the user's going to use to update the bot. Then add on other features.
Then realize everything sucks and re-design it all from scratch.
Basically, just pick a small part of the project that you can design and test (like posting "Hello World" to your twitter account) and figure it out and expand from there. Until you really get a feel for programming, it's hard to sit down and design the whole thing before you start coding, even though that's what good programmers do.
That sounds like a lot of work if you're going to have actual secure accounts to log in to. If by login you just mean open up a utility and it connects to the server, that would probably not be too bad.
There are probably APIs to do most of what you're talking about doing, so I would search for things like Twitter API and write a module that posts some input to twitter. Then put together a module that handles the input from a user. Then put together the interface that the user's going to use to update the bot. Then add on other features.
Then realize everything sucks and re-design it all from scratch.
Basically, just pick a small part of the project that you can design and test (like posting "Hello World" to your twitter account) and figure it out and expand from there. Until you really get a feel for programming, it's hard to sit down and design the whole thing before you start coding, even though that's what good programmers do.