Hello CaptainJohnHawk, welcome to this wonderful guild. I'm a noob too, so I feel just like you.

If you are working on a project, I couldn't recommend enough to open a WIP thread (in the correct section of the forum) to get feedback and improve it, it's helping me tremendously with my first serious project, more than I ever thought, and having the pros giving you advice and suggestions is a luxury and a great way to learn and get better with specific issues you can't solve on your own by reading.

So, have fun and learn a lot while doing so! Since you seem to know the site I guess you've already checked out the tutorials section, that on itself it's a great resource for almost anything you might need.