I\'ve been learning C#/.NET 4.0 for about 2/3 months, it\'s my first serious pro

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I've been learning C#/.NET 4.0 for about 2/3 months, it's my first serious programming language (I've looked at PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and VBA before but never massively in depth) and I'm starting to become a bit stuck:

I have hit a ceiling with my learning due to lack of a 'big' project...
Lack of working on complex projects is giving me doubts in my abilities...
2 weeks ago I had an interview for a Junior Programmer job, and managed to answer most of the questions that were answered of me, but I still didn't get the job due to lack of practical experience, I'm unsure of what to do!

As I said before, I wouldn't mine contributing to an Open Source project, but I don't know where to start, I presume the 'big' projects only want good coders :(

Is there any form of online programming test that will show me how 'good' (or 'bad') I am at the moment? :)

Thanks for any help.

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I would ask you what you're interested in (hobbies, etc..) and then see what larger projects you can come up with that are related to that. Also you could check out Project Euler if you're just looking for exercises, but I think that projects you're personally interested in are better.

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