Random Number & Text Box entry

First up - Hi all, I’m just starting out on my experiments with Flash I’d like to learn how to use this programme so that I can one day get a job when I’m done with school using media programmes like this - so please go easy on my questions if they seem a bit nooby.

I’d like to create a thermometer that shows some random readings (-10 to 100 degrees) each time one of my classmates clicks on the next button a new reading is shown. It might not be possible but could you have a text box that they can type into as well? and if they get the number rihgt in the text box a tick or a cross shows up. Does that sound like something that Flash can do?

I want to do this myself, so if anone has any good places to start or tutorials they know of please can you reply to this thread, I’d be very grateful for any help you guys could offer.

Many thanks von