good question

I am going to start a project that is going to be somewhat "challenging" for me, considering i ma stil quite new to C++. I wanted to ask you guys, the experts, if it was a bad practice to take for example, a vb/c++ project, and then try to create something similar for practice..
cuz i am bored of writing small progs for practice, abd when i wanna do something more important, i am sort of lost..so i thought i would take a project(menus in this case) and try to produce something similar using the code as a guide..
would it help me?

I've found that if you finish it, yes, and it feels very rewarding. If you don't finish it you feel as if you've waisted time...but any coding is good practice so its up to you :D I chose to finish ;)

My first e-mail I got from my first VB program was this:

"I wanted to thank you for placing your Tiny Clock on Go.com. I used Windows 3.1 for five years with a clock with seconds, and now that I have Windows 98, I missed the seconds. Thank you for Tiny Clock!"

That made me feel good. :cool:

ok..its just that i felt "unconfortable" using other ppl's project to practice

Sure it would help you!

I think that sitting down and trying to code something always teach you something! At least it have for me.

ok, thanks guys :)

i highly recommend doing that. just don't do it with a commercail app and go selling it. I have used free code many times, and rewrote it, and they given it to my friends and such.