Re: What language to use....?
Two of the most prominent languages our there would be c++ and java, and these languages will have much more resources on the internet that can help you (tutorials, code snippets, existing source code for programs, etc). Although what you are wanting to do will take some time to do, if you don't have any programming experience you should expect several hundred (if not thousands, depending on your learning curve) of hours just to acquaint yourself with the language enough to write a program.
Hope that helps
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