[andi999]

Why smallish? Small only teaches you tactics and not strategy. (in the sense architecture is most important for largish projects)

[cammikebrown]

Gotta start somewhere.

[ainzzorl]

Yes. I was thinking to start with smaller examples showing how they write code at <big project> without necessarily understanding the big picture, but bigger examples would be great too eventually. Something like http://aosabook.org/en/index.html already mentioned here.