I 2nd that emotion. If you are interested in Web apps, you might try creating with an old school CGI ecard site. It will introduce many basic concepts: working

I 2nd that emotion. If you are interested in Web apps, you might try creating with an old school CGI ecard site. It will introduce many basic concepts: working with the file system (images, thumbnails, etc), CGI, handling form data, doing simple database CRUD, and sending email. If you want to get fancy, you can build your own simple MVC framework in a few hundred lines.