Hi! I'm a complete newbie to the bitcoin community. Do you guys have any recommendations on what I should be doing first? Would truly appreciate any advice you can provide. 
If you are newbie to the forum the best thing to do is read up the forum beginners help and get use to couple of dos and donts in the forum, the advantage of that is that it can help you find the right info when you need them, and also help you focus your time to things that are more important in the forum while ignoring the irrelevant mattersThis would be a good place to start with: Things you shouldn't miss as a newbie: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4922651.msg44328089#msg44328089