Hello, I'm new to this forum and to visual basic .net, i have just finished the book, Sam's Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours. I am now beginning to read another book, Mastering Visual Basic 2008. I run visual basic .net 3.5 2008. I'm learning visual basic as a main hobby. I am 16 years old.

I'm searching to do a project on really anything (well, nothing that hard) to improve my experience in visual basic and my knowledge in the language. Unfortunately, i have no ideas on what application to make or attempt to make to do that.

I am also wondering if there is a place where people meet to work on projects together, i might want to work on a small open-source project with some other entry level programmer(s) for non-profit and just for experience and gratification.

If any of you experts can guide me in the direction i need to go from here to build experience and possibly a portfolio. Please comment!

Thank you,
-t0rk3y (C.Bale)