The idea is to write functions to break up the work for you. You should have an initialization function, a draw function, and a function to get which card was clicked. Breaking it up this way makes it simpler for your main game loop. If you've done C for a year then you should know that. As far as Allegro goes please read up on many of its functions and look at all of the examples. Once you understand them then you can work on a game. You have the stuff on the screen already but you need to understand come simple concepts, for example you need a main game loop, once you initialize your cards then you go into a continual loop until the user exits the game (usually hitting the ESC key). You also need to understand double buffering (creating a separate off screen drawing space for drawing) which will allow you to do animations. Don't jump in so fast, make some simple double buffering apps, tie one of your bitmaps to the mouse movement for example. Move up from there.

@ Simon... dear god don't teach him to write a bunch of if statements like that, that's horrible coding techniques.

It's just an example so he sees that the simple (in the sense of "not complicated") way isn't always the right one. And besides that, if I showed him some sophisticated code with "advanced" features like sub-functions arrays and structs he wouldn't have understood.

Each card should have the location of the top left corner (x and y) and size (width and height). The mouse cursor is "on-top" of a card when mouse_x is between x and x+width AND mouse_y is between y and y+height. The left mouse button is clicked when mouse_b&1 is true. In code (pseudocode):

You really should get a C book and make sure you are perfectly comfortable with loops, if's, switches, structs, functions, pointers, dynamic memory allocation and the operators (+, -, =, ==, *, /, ++,-- etc). Some basic knowledge of the standard library would not hurt either. Make some dull "text-only" programs before you start playing with the beast that is graphical programing

But don't worry about it; C is a very simply language (those parts mentioned above is pretty much it, with the exception of function pointers and unions iirc), and im sure you already know most of the parts mentioned above.

Well, good luck and have fun!

ok guys....everytime i run my program it tells me: 'bool' is undeclared. what exactly is bool? i know int, double, float, char....is bool like those or what is it? and how can i "declare" it so I can run my program?

ok cool...that worked. ok now for the line:

for (each card) {
         if (mx > card<i>.x && mx < card<i>.x + card<i>.width && my > card<i>.y && my < card<i>.y + card<i>.height) {

am i supposed to put like

for (card[0]) {
                if (mx > card[0].x && mx < card[0].x + card[0].width && my > card[0].y && my < card[0].y + card[0].height) {

or what should i be putting in the for( );

well thank you all for your help....and thanks for putting up with me!!!;D

Hmmm, the op says she's a girl and all of a sudden Miran is helpful.

I see how it is around here....

I know I mixed C and C++, sorry about that. Bool is short for boolean, with two values, true and false. Use a for loop like I used in the init function:

for(int i = 0; i < NUM_CARDS * 2; i++)
   // do something with card<i>

Sex change, anyone? Does Mian's avatar have a slight smooth look in the eye now?

@ James Stanley: Text books give you the what, why, how and the when not to explanations. They give an understanding behind the information that is given. Reading other people's code, unless it's really, really well documented, won't. But trawling through other's code is a great way to learn about [various] implementions, usages and, in cases, more advanced techniques.

Smooth as in suave.

For beginners, I'd recommend trying different language and learn the one they understand better than the others.

But ... Heh , well ;-)