Progress, at least a little bit
Got some bit of an update here: I've begun to write down the project description and flesh out the class tree. Still haven't written any code yet, but that's the point, I have to define the problem and craft the solution around that, and then fill in the code. I think my mistake before was a case of over-zealousness and forgetting what I had learned in my introductory computer science courses: define the problem, design a solution, implement the solution, then debug.

So outside of getting the problem defined, I haven't done much, but I suppose in its own way, that's a lot to do.

Happy Computing.