Thank you for replying so quickly.
Good point and no I can't as of now since I have none of the materials and I have never tried anything like this. I'm a complete newbie to all of this.The only thing I know is a basic understanding of c++. I've compiled a few programs but nothing that physically interfaced with something else except a keyboard. I really have no idea were to even begin so I thought the forums would be a good place to start 
Any ideas on where I could begin? Maybe a template or something? Anything would be helpful.
Thank you