Have you mined other coins?

It's a fairly easy process that is virtually about the same.  Two steps. Sign up for an account on one of those pools list in the first post. Download the program "guiminer scrypt".  Log in to the pool where you have the account and click on 'getting started' for the settings you need to mine.

MNC isn't a bad first coin to mine because it has a low difficulty so you'll collect full coins quickly.