I'm thinking that both of alternative cryptocurrency and bitcoin itself are the good investment right now, because market is seems to start recovering a bit, and maybe it is the beginning of way up.
Diversification is a good thing to start with. This way a person will learn about different coins but one must include bitcoin in his investment list because this currency has returned largest profits so far and is expected to do so in future again and again. Now the whole market is suffering from a decline so all investors must increase the amount of digital assets.