I want to create a website that is a stock market simulator game.

• Simulated stocks are based on real world stock prices
• Users will be able to register their usernames with their email address and have a password.
• A site wide public game created at the beginning of each year that never ends that is open to anyone to join on the site.
• Users can create private games with specified runtimes, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, no end.
• Within private games, user's can set the starting dollar amount each user gets
• Within private games, the creator can change multiple options that the game will use for the rest of the duration

Thats the gist of it.

What would it take to be able to create this site? What language would be best etc.

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pick your favourite language. lots of options.

you might wanna start with a database design and go from there.

how hard would it be to do this?

that's a bit subjective don't you think? given your lack of programming knowledge, lack of troubleshooting skills, lack of reading comprehension, etc you'll prolly have a hell of a hard time doing any project on your own. much less making an app for public users. i suggest making something small first and do baby steps.

here's my recommendation:
1) create a backlog of all the features you want
2) design the general architecture of your app.
3) work on your database structure
4) split them into time slices. say, 2 weeks. so in 2 weeks think about how much of those features you can accomplish.
5) for each iteration, code it. remember, baby steps. you shouldn't even touch stock stuff until everything else is done.
6) write unit tests

HTML
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Javascript
PHP
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Really hard if you're not even sure which languages to use..

This post was edited by grievance on Nov 20 2013 02:42pm