1) Anyone new to ASLSK, please be sure to join the Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit Facebook group. There are over 1100 of us, and it is a GREAT resource. I am a moderator there and have posted up a huge collection of files and posts to help you get started.
2) You MUST read Jay Richardson's tutorials if you wish to optimize your learning of the game's rules and tactics!!!!! You also MUST carefully study the rules and examples therein.
3) Please do not start out playing against other new players. This will absolutely cause you to learn a myriad of bad habits and mislearn the rules and their application.
4) Play around with VASL (and download the short-cut key file). Everything (and more) that you can do in FtF games is available in VASL. Click and right click and drag and etc on everything.
5) I would be happy to play VASL/Skype games with newbies as often as my schedule permits. My daughter can do the same. I can be reached at TheSQLGuru on Google's mail service, and I can put you in touch with her. Oh, and avoid PBeM games for quite some time if at all possible as they GREATLY reduce the ability to learn effectively during play.
6) TAKE YOUR TIME in progressing through the game. Do not rush to get to Ordnance and Vehicles. There is a LOT of stuff to learn from those dozen pages of rules in SK 1, and it will set the foundation for all future play.
7) Note that there are over 100 SK scenarios out now, including some truly MONSTER engagements and even a campaign game!! There are quite a few scenarios in development AND a Pacific Theater of Operations SK 4 module that should be released in late winter or early spring 2019. So if you wish to stick with just SK, as many are doing, there is easily 10 years of enjoyment available to you.
8) WELCOME TO THE GREATEST TACTICAL WAR GAME EVER!!! :-D