As a beginner, you must be wise and protective of your investments. Aside from knowing very well and everything about crypto, you must study well the coin that you intend to invest. And a starter coins, I think you won't get wrong with bitcoin. It has proven resiliency in the market and almost all others crypto are paired to it so it would be easier to monitor its price in the market.
Protection is very important in terms of investment, as a beginner you need to focus with this first and allow yourself to earned more knowledge regarding
to this industry, with your good research and study everything will be run smoothly, doing it slowly and not to rush in to avoid certain mistake, you can
go and buy some BTC and experience the actual practice after that you can add more with your convenience.