ultra newbie question (don't laugh)

[John Salerno]

George Sakkis wrote:

> To start with your last question, yes, they probably would, *IF* all
> you need to do is take data from the user (through a GUI, command line,
> etc.) and store them in some persistent state (text file, pickle, db,
> etc.). In practice, chances are you'll need to do something more with
> the data; I mean, what's the point in just storing data without using
> them somehow ? Using the data is the core of an application, so the
> question you should be able to answer beforehand is "what do I want to
> do with all these data?". Compute statistics ? Print reports ? Create a
> social network type of app ? All of the above ? You get the point.

Thanks for the advice guys! OOP seems like a good idea, and besides it 
can't hurt to experiment with it even if I don't necessarily need it. 
I'll give this a shot and maybe post the code later and let you all tear 
it apart. :)