Getting started

I'm not sure where I'm going with this but I treated myself to a new camera and I'm going to try to follow a course through so that I learn how to use it to its full possibilities. That might seem like something that all new camera users would do but I have to admit to owning probably near a  hundred cameras over the years and I have never read an instruction manual for any of them but they have all managed to take photos even if they were not that great. What I have never really done is try to learn how to get the best out of them - so that is the intention of this journey. I might fail at it or I might persevere but if the photos are poor it won't be because of the equipment of that I am certain.