Since there has been a few people who are interested in learning to code I will provide some help and also provide some guidance on what to do each week in order to create your very own database and auto-betting software.

I'll be pointing at some online resources that you will need to read and provide some exercises to complete each week. I strongly suggest you do the exercises as I'll at least be here to help out with any issues, and people learn by doing, not reading.

Week 1 is an introduction to the java language as well as getting software setup.

Steps for you to complete this week:

1. Go to http://download.oracle.com/javase/t...rted/index.html
2. Read through all of the introductory material on The Java Technology Phenomenon
3. Read through the lesson on The "Hello World!" Application
4. Install the JDK and netbeans (part of step 3 lesson)
5. Compile and run the Hello World Application (part of Step 3).
6. Read through the lesson on A Closer Look at "Hello World!"
7. Make changes to the Hello World application to print out "Horse Racing Database Test".

If you have any issues then read through the Common Problems (and Their Solutions) section

By the end of this week you should :

1. Have installed Netbeans and JDK6 or newer.
2. Written a simple application to say "Hello World"
3. Written a simple program to say "Horse Racing Database Test"

If anyone has problems installing the software and/or coding the Hello World program please write the errors you are recieving here and I'll help you out.

I also encourage each of you to help each other out. Especially if you see someone here has posted a problem which you have resolved yourself.

I'll try and make sure I logon at least once a day and answer questions.

This won't be a quick thing. It will take 15-20 weeks for us to get through all of this and get a simple database program written. But once it is written you should know enough to code almost anything you will need to code.