i just bought a phototransistor, you like to know how to hook it up. maybe just make it turn on an led with the sense of light from a tv remote. anything really to get me started with it.
thanks
Here you go! This is how I learned. So in your application just replace the use the variable "val" with what ever you want to control and remove the serial functions!
Edit:
If you need help reading the diagram, just connect the positive side of the phototransitor to +5v, the negative side to analog 1 in AND to a 10k resistor that connects to ground =D
Thanks. I can read diagrams and stuff in that starter guide from spark fun I just used the diagrams not the breadboard overlays 
no prob! Didn't mean to assume, but I definitely had a hard time reading those when I first started and still have trouble reading more advanced ones today!