heres the deal. i wanna start a project. i work with visual basic 2010 express. not the best i know, but its what i used in school and its the only one i know. so i just wanted some ideas not too complicated cuz im not too good at coding yet (im going into programming 3 when school starts). i appriciate anything you can give me. also if there are other programming tools i can use that i could adapt to quickly if you know any let me know and ill check them out. again, thanks.