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You need an IDEA as someone mentioned. I would go for something like a movie database or CD collection database.

Then you immediately come up with some problems. You've hopefully read about n-tier design. Let's start with that.

Problem #1: How am I going to store the data? ASCII files, Excel, XML or a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL are free as is SQL Server Express) Start with choosing the type of storage.
Problem #2: Storage structure. Probably something you haven't read. Start here[^]
Problem #3: DAL: You'll need to talk to the database, whatever type you choose you'll need to find out how to do that. here's where the coding starts. Start with reading out the data and check if it works by debugging or doing an output to the cmd window (no UI yet!)
Problem #4: DAL: You can talk to the database, can you write to it? Make a unit test or something that adds and updates entries.
Problem #5: BL: Setup constraints and check of your input and output. Create objects you'll need to use and business rules to follow. You can create objects within objects. So eg you can have a DVD object that contains title, duration, ... but also an Actor object that in turn contains lastname, firstname, age, ... For those objects I would use Load and Save functions (save = insert or update depending if the object already existed).
Problem #6: GUI: How would you like to represent the data? With covers and pictures, without? In a grid or with "cards" (or both) will it be web or winforms or wpf? Can you print it?

This is just high level, but the point is to tackle each problem at a time.
If you want to build CRUD applications a DVD/CD collection is a good example. If you want to go into gaming, you'll need GDI+ and keyboard/mouse input/output. In that case snake, mastermind or a card game or something like that is a better option.

Hope this helps.
V.

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OriginalGriff wrote:
V is absolutely right

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