First entry

Got signed up for GDNet+ today. I am graduating in a few days with a BA in Mechanical Engineering (resume) and hope to spend a lot of time between now and when I get a job working on my programming skills.
My main goals:
1.Finish up my Allegro Tic-Tac-Toe game
2.Work up a design plan for a text adventure. I want to make this as modular as possible so that I have a seperate parser (I am thinking about tokenizing all the words into numbers), dictionary, and world data levels.
3. Begin coding the text adventure engine.