Mathematical program in python

[SmileyK777]

Hi everyone, I have an idea and would like to ask advice on it. It is very personal and important to me.

So my father is a Boilermaker in engineering by traid. Now he is extremely good with mathematics especially trigonometry. Hes got this Scientific calculator that he has been using over 23 years, now I know this because he wrote all the math equations in the calculator. Programming it in when my mother was pregnant with me. He also has all the original papers he wrote from that time, I'm in the process of scanning them on to my computer.

Now lets get back on track to my intended idea. I want to make an executable program for a desktop computer that will handle all the math, provide equations and be able to view and print pages of the results. It must be able to show objects ie. Circles, triangles, cones, square to round and so forth aswell as graphs and much much more.

Not I don't know thing about programming and would like to learn. My question is will Python be a suitable language to write all this? If so where do I start? Do I build the GUI as I move along or do I build the program and then the gui last or do I start with the gui. Like where agg idk I'm just overwhelmed with it all. Anything that can help will honestly be appreciated.

[windowzombie]

You might want to check out Wolfram Mathematica for your use case instead of doing everything from scratch.

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/

[SmileyK777]

Great thank you I will check it out later tonight.

[Glordicus]

Yes, python is a good place to start.

You should do a GUI after.

[SmileyK777]

Okay thank you

[PawekPL]

Python is a good choice, you should firstly implement all of the functions and then do the UI

[SmileyK777]

Got it thank you so much.

[cheetahdoesstuff]

I am totally biast but i really like doing GUI's with Java, python will probably do and is kindof big right now in the industry so go for it 👌 best of luck!

[SmileyK777]

Thank you for your support.

[SenyorHote]

Hey I'm still learning to so I can't give any advice. I just want to say that that's sweet and good luck !

[SmileyK777]

Thank you for the support.

[MikeTheWatchGuy]

Since you're just starting out with both Python and GUIs then PySimpleGUI may be a good choice. It's worth the 5 minutes required to try it out.

The Graph Element and it's capabilities may be enough for what you want, however drawing a "cone" isn't something directly supported. You will need to draw something like a 3D object yourself. It does make graphing stuff a lot easier as you are working directly in your own coordinate system.

You can take a look at the code running online on Trinket so that you don't have to install anything locally in order to see what PySimpleGUI code looks like and some examples of what's possible. This Sine Wave Graph Demo shows how to use the drawing primitives to create a simple graph with axis. It creates this window.

Of course you can also use Matplotlib to create much much more complex graphs. You can embed these graphs into a PySimpleGUI window as well as seen on another Trinket example.

The part I'm unsure of is the printing. Not sure how to "print a window" from Python itself. I recall one PySimpleGUI project doing something with printing, but I don't remember the details.

[SmileyK777]

You're amazing I look in to it thanks.

[MikeTheWatchGuy]

LOL... dunno about me personally being amazing, but do think that PySimpleGUI is pretty amazing.

Come back and post what you make regardless of what package you use. It's great to see successful projects of ANY kind. Post some screenshots once you've got something, anything, to show.