Programming languages to develop Windows applications

Posted by Felix Garcia on April 23rd, 2019

Digital technologies are in constant change, sometimes it is so fast that every few months you need to update your skills to keep up with all the new APIs that come up every so often, increasing the demand for programmers and forcing them to be in the never-ending learning process. Programming language resource are all available over the internet: PHP, Java, Javascript are some of the most popular ones. But what should be your best choice when programming for a Windows application.

As a developer at the marketing consultants firm, Marketing Expertus,  If you have to become a Windows application developer, then it is necessary for you to have knowledge of following described languages and mastery on at least one or more languages.

Javascript

If you aspire to become a windows developer, Javascript is a must, the most popular client-side programming language of the web. It powers most web applications, easy to learn with all the documentation required to get you started available in multiple resources online such as MDN web docs. It is very adaptable and can be implemented on multiple platforms such as Android, iOS, and Windows. JavaScript allows programmers to build an interactive Windows apps, it has plenty of plugins to speed up your development and libraries such as jQuery, React and Gulp that will make programming simple and fast.

Java

Well known for being the programming languages for mobile app development, it is mainly implemented on server-side applications and used for the various operating systems. According to the data analytics company Analytics and Data, most popular for being the Android app development language, it can also be used for Windows as it runs anywhere because of this feature you can run your application across multiple software platforms. It is an excellent language for intermediate developers because the level of difficulty of this language is more than JavaScript.

C#

C# is the specially developed language for Windows applications.

The C# is the object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as a part of a .NET developing programme. If you have a good knowledge of Java, C# would be easy for you as both languages have a lot of similarities in term of syntax, besides it combines features of  C and C++ language.

PHP

It is the server-side programming language for mobile as well as websites. PHP, the old man rive language, has been on the internet for a very long time and it is maintaining its popularity thanks to its intuitive syntax and its widespread implementation on platforms such Wordpress and Magento. It possesses an extensive library to easily connect with databases, sending information back and forth. Open source and fully documentation php.net, PHP is an object-oriented programming language that allows you to handle a large amount of data on the web and mobile applications.

Ruby

Ruby is the object-oriented and dynamic programming language for mobile and web apps. It is a great programming language because it is easy to understand and simple to write a programming language.  It is the user-friendly language for beginners and excellent framework used on Shopify, Groupon, and GitHub.

SQL

SQL is a Structured Query Language which most useful for large data. SQL helps you to handle, update, save and sort important data stored on databases.  Every application requires the database interaction and SQL makes it easier and fast to handle all that information and display on applications. SQL provides with queries to find and arrange the information on databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL server, and MySQL, then it is necessary for you to have knowledge of SQL programming language.

This article provides all the relevant information on programming Windows application from a developer perspective. It is not strictly necessary that you have a full understanding of all of them, but you should be comfortable with them and master at least a couple of them.