i dont have an experiance making games, but i want to try and get an understanding of how the networking works like keeping track of highscores for flash games to networking games like mmorpg games... would this be a good place for me to start?

maybe making some flash games from scratch putting them up on websites
then working on making them more complex with some sort of player vs player type of network like chess or checkers or pool simple games like that but not specificly those games

would this be a a good way to practice that or am i completely off track?