of the primary tasks when writing a program is to analyze the intitial problem and break it into it's component steps. This is what you might call developing an algorithm". When developing a program you need to break it into "easily" programmed steps, but the process of building an algorithm can be applied to almost any circumstances... Think of a simple daily task and break it down into its component steps Keep it in simple terms that could be described to someone that had no idea how to do the task. Once you have the steps, post them here