How travel and working on the moon affect in future plans travel and working in mars

I need a help for my project. I look around and I can't find alot of info. Thank you.

Practice makes perfect.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/news/GES…
http://www.marssociety.org/home/about/fa…
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Mars/Ma… and add 10 years to dates for the future projects.

Or not:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beat…

A Routine Moon Base would be excellent training for missions to Mars or further.
Creating Life support systems and propelant from the lunar substrate would be good practise.
Earth would not be just as far for help.
Lunar gravity is also around 1/2 that of Mars, A lift off from the moon would not only need 1/6th the energy than that from Earth, and the Moon's orbit itself could be used as a slingshot.

Both the Moon and Mars have environments hostile to human life, and require life support. The half-year plus journeys each way, to and from Mars will have another complex set of life support considerations.

I think the life support systems used on the ISS give us better ideas than the (40 year ago) Apollo missions, however, as there is much more resource recycling (water, oxygen, etc.) which will be mandatory for the Mars mission, where re-supply will not be possible.

It wouldn't. The only thing the moon and Mars have in common is that they are not Earth. Other than that they are completely different environments. Mars has an (almost) 24 hour rotation, the moon takes a month. Mars has a thin atmosphere, the moon has none. Mars has less extreme temperature swings than the moon due to it's atmosphere. Mars has high concentrations of water in it's soil in the form of permafrost (some areas are 60% water ice by mass), on the moon it's parts per million. You can grow crops in Martian soil (inside an inflatable green house), you cannot do that on the moon. Mars has a complex geologic history, the moon does not. To a geologist Mars looks more like Africa than the moon.