My first Arduino Project-ROOKIE/NEWBIE

Projects General Guidance
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I have what I think as a simple project but due to my vast lack of experience I am seeking some guidance & tips. Here is a description of the project:

I want to have 2 lever switches connected to the arduino uno
i want a small TFT display connected to the same arduino 1.8" w/microSD
I want to have the arduino record the switches actuation individually
I want the arduino to calculate the relative switch actuations to each other; then also calculate the relative percentage of actuations to the total of actuations.i.e.

switch 1 is actuated & arduino adds 1 hit to the counter for switch 1 & 1 hit to the counter for the total of all hits

switch 2 is actuated & arduino adds 1 hit to the counter for switch 2 & 1 hit for the counter for the total of all hits

Logic: switch 1 is a counter for correct; i.e. hit the target. switch 2 is a counter for incorrect; hit i.e. missed the target.
display a total of all hits
display a total of correct hits vs. incorrect hits
display a percentage of correct hits vs incorrect hits.
record the session & be able to correlate multiple sessions & display same display features for multiple sessions as those for a single session

Note: I have NO practical experience with electronics of any kind so I do not know if I require resistors or capacitors etc. in the circuit. If anyone is willing to provide some assistance. I can provide all the relevant specs for the materials I have on hand. I can obtain any items that you think I might require. I do also have on hand a full size breadboard, the arduino uno, the lever switches, the tft display, and a supply of various resistors and capacitors. I also have arduino connector wires with the correct pin connector size in 5 colors.

I know this is a long read so please allow me to pick your minds for tips & assistance.
Thank You;
john foster

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As you say you have no experience in any of this, you are asking for a lot from members. You need to do a lot more reading of books on Arduino hardware and software.
There are many books available that cover all the basics you are asking for.

This forum will then assist once you have got your basic circuit and program.

These books have all you need to know about connecting switches and programming to read them.

Weedpharma

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The Arduino IDE comes with sample codes... one of which I think has to do with using a switch to turn on/off LEDs you can use that to get started with how to write a switch and input code then the rest is formulas, so look up high school algebra and output results to a display which is still foreign to me, but I'm positive you can look it up.

Good luck!