Hello Emacs Developers,

I am very new to Emacs development. I am now trying to develop my own menu
and I had a few questions about it.

Do I start of writing my code in a new .el file under "lisp" directory? Do I
have to compile emacs and install it everytime I make some changes and want
to test it?
I need to create a new menu item and perform a couple of simple tasks.
Please let me know how I can proceed .
Any links or suggestions would be extremely helpful.

Thanks,
Supreet