I'm submitting this as an assignment. so i was testing it on the autodesk 123dcircuits online simulator, because it will be tested by the my peers to grade me there on this simulator.
maybe because the code is rough and the simulator is not like the real board it didn't work.
it used to never give me anything whatever i do the serial monitor is always blank
you can't know how i appreciate the help you did 
thank you alot chuck.
until later when you help me again
thank you
just testing
btw what is the EEPROM access code?