freebsd : newbie : learning acceleration tasks/problems?

[Mayuresh Kathe]

hello,

it's been just a short while that i started tinkering with freebsd and i 
have learned quite a bit from this mailing list and other sources on the 
freebsd website.

would like to know if there be some kind of a "set of tasks" or 
"problems" which a newbie could be expected to solve on their own or 
with some amount of hand holding from the community to accelerate the 
learning process for the newbie.

nothing big, just small, simple tasks like what i set for myself (as 
recorded at; http://mayuresh.sdf.org/) to start getting to know and 
understand the system better.

thanks,

~mayuresh