Use the extended TalkToMe project available from the same page to learn some more basic programming skills like :
How to open and alter an existing project;
How to ask information from the user and store it in a variable; and
How to use variables.
As a programmer, you will frequently want your program to "remember" information like a value, a word, or a sentence. For example, if your program requests information from the user, or if it calculates a value, you will want to remember it somewhere so you can use it later. The way your program remembers things is by storing them in variables. So in essence, variables are placeholders; they can hold information and be overwritten by new information. Before you can use a variable in a program, it needs an initial value. In this project, the user provides the initial value by typing in text.
You will probably finish these two projects in less than an hour!