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- May 23, 2002
Hey all, I'm trying to create a very unique and seemingly odd program.
Basically what I want to do is create a program which polls a website frequently (every 15 minutes or so) and analyses the content (which is ever changing). If there is a change, it will send out a notice (via email, or perhaps even va text message) to alert me.
I have a strong knowledge of computers, but limited programming (I have 2 semesters of java programming, learned Q basic, and worked extensively with mathlab/mathcad). I basicaly need the beginning building blocks and can work on sorting things out once I have a shell, but getting the shell I have no idea where to go. I've never created a program from scratch really that just launches (except with java and SDK environments a long time ago).
Does anyone have any good starting references?
Thanks,
Aaron
Basically what I want to do is create a program which polls a website frequently (every 15 minutes or so) and analyses the content (which is ever changing). If there is a change, it will send out a notice (via email, or perhaps even va text message) to alert me.
I have a strong knowledge of computers, but limited programming (I have 2 semesters of java programming, learned Q basic, and worked extensively with mathlab/mathcad). I basicaly need the beginning building blocks and can work on sorting things out once I have a shell, but getting the shell I have no idea where to go. I've never created a program from scratch really that just launches (except with java and SDK environments a long time ago).
Does anyone have any good starting references?
Thanks,
Aaron