Hi, Thanks for the wonderful inputs.
All right, I will give you the actual scenario and maybe you guys can help me further: I think the application should have 4 modules, interconnected with each other and accessible via proper user perms: 1. The front office: This will have all student records, their results, records of staff etc. + Fee/Donation collection, salary distribution modules etc. 2. The academic administrator: This will have all academic records of students + managing academic calender + this might also have certain modules for *building up* question/activity bank for students etc. 3. Manager: This will have financial records + inventory + bus management system etc. 4. Teacher: This will have all basic info + academic records of students + *viewing* question/activity bank. (This module might be accessed via 2-3 PCs kept in staff room) I want to have good UI for creating & viewing question + activity bank and also managing academic calender, as that will be used by people who are not much computer savvy. Rest I guess, would be mostly data manipulation. I think not much networking is involved here, right, apart of course from accessing the database server? I guess, now that I have read your emails and have noted down my requirements, I would rather go with django, right? Thanks once again! Regards, Saurabh. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Jeff FW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Saurabh, > > I have spent the past year developing a GUI application (using > wxPython) that communicates with a server (using Twisted), which > connects to a PostgresQL database (using SQLAlchemy.) It has been a > very rewarding experience learning and using all of these tools. > However, the learning curve was quite steep--especially getting all of > the libraries to work with each other. > > I've also worked on a number of Django web applications in the same > time. Having written web sites/applications since the early days of > the web, I can safely say that Django is the best tool for doing so. > Period. It makes me regret the years I spent working with PHP. > > You obviously have serious programming experience--C++ (especially > graphics work) is much harder than anything you'll be dealing with for > this application. So really, it depends on what set of tools you > *want* to learn. HTML, CSS and (basic) Javascript are very easy to > pick up--almost negligible when compared with learning a GUI toolkit > and networking library (or dealing with connections manually, which is > very painful.) > > Another thing to consider are deploying the application. With a GUI > app, you'd need a way of deploying and updating for every machine it > runs on. With a web app--make your change on the server and you're > done. How many people would be using the app? > > Then there's the matter of how complicated of an interface you really > need. What does the application need to *do*? For most things, a web > app would suffice. I went with a desktop app because (eventually) the > app will need to incorporate a very UI-intensive scheduling module. > If most of your app will be simple forms, and displaying lists of > data--go with Django. > > I started writing this e-mail with the intent of giving a balanced > opinion, but it seems that I think you should go with Django. If you > can tell me more about your app and what it will need to do, I can try > to give you some better advice, but really, it boils down to this: > writing a GUI app will take *much* longer than writing the equivalent > with Django. However, you may have to sacrifice some usability. > > -Jeff > > On Nov 24, 8:24 pm, "Saurabh Agrawal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi group: > > > > I hope that you good people here could help me with a decision I am > finding > > hard to make. > > > > I am about to develop a MIS type application for a Non for profit > > organization teaching young children in India. > > > > I am trying to use this opportunity to make myself learn python, and if > > required the whole web based development paradigm using django. > > > > I have experience of c++ graphical algorithms development. > > > > Now obviously this application would be database based and database > > manipulation would be the major part. It would be mostly used across > desktop > > computers in the organization running Windows XP. The decision which I am > > unable to make is that should I use django for this project? My issues > are: > > > > 1. This application would be run on desktops, so GUI toolkits such as > PyQT > > might suffice. > > 2. Making good interfaces for web would require additional learning on my > > part such as HTML, CSS and Javascript, an area in which I have > absolutely > > no expertise, just a very basic idea. > > > > So what do you guys suggest? If learning the above things would still > give > > me an edge( in terms of time required for development) over PyQt based > > interfaces, in terms of automated databse manipulation tools such as the > > admin interface, I would go for it and it might be a good experience for > me. > > > > Thanks for reading this slightly incoherent and maybe off-topic mail. > > > > All suggestions are welcome and I would be grateful for them. > > > > Regards, > > Saurabh Agrawal. > > > -- virtualmic.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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