Quote Originally Posted by lilrayray
I have written some programs with what I have learned. For instance, I have written algebra calculators (linear) and simple commandline text editors (read, write, save). But I want to start programming things like graphical apps, more complex math apps (possibly even with graphing), and most of all I want to get out of the commandprompt. For instance, I wanted to make a program that would encrypt and unencrypt a text file. I could find no way to do this with what I had learned. In the future I would like to be able to even program a image manipulation program.
http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/index.html
This was my take off point from commandline... creating my first GUI was incredibly gratifying (even though at the time it was just an empty shell), and once you learn event handling it becomes incredibly addictive to just keep adding more and more stuff to each event.