I want to start on a side project and here's my idea: Whenever the user's mouse is pressed down, I want a small ring around the cursor to show up. I'm mainly doing this to learn more about programming and get myself to think outside of work related materials.

My questions are:

1) is there a good source I can reference to start a project that deals with something like this?

2) Is visual studio a sufficient software to create such an application? Or would I need some other tool to do this.

3) What language should I choose to do this task?

Thanks in advance!