Beginning of Beginner Help: Should I start with Python?

[appdevelnewb]

Sure, you could do that in python.

For storing the data, you'd want a database. The easy answer is sqlite, which python supports out of the box: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html

For the interface, you can build a gui (TKinter is built in, but not pretty: https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html), or you could build a small website using something like Flask (which is NOT builtin, but easily installed via pip: http://flask.pocoo.org/).

For generating a report based off the database's contents, you could either build it yourself (outputting as html would be pretty simple, and most browsers can save that as a pdf if needed), or there's probably tools out there to just do it for you based on the database contents.

This is fantastically helpful info, thank you so much!