Breakout style or Sidescroller

Hello,

I am currently trying to find time in between work and doing my review site to learn to develop my own games.

The best advice I have heard from people is to start small, I have worked through some of the tutorials but I feel that I will learn more by "just doing" and that is what I intend to do.

I intend to build up my skills by creating some simple games, starting with a single level and slowly progressing into more.

Which would you say would be best to start with? a breakout style game or a side scroller?

I was originally thinking a break out game as I would assume it would be pretty easy, set a paddle to bounce back collisions on.

Have a script on a brick that if hit by ball, points plus, safe delete etc etc

Would this be on the right line of thinking? :)

Thanks