Hello everybody

Please forgive me for the following questions, few of which have been already put (hope to read something that will update and simplify the previous answers) and some perhaps very stupid:

1) As a diy who want to start from the scratch, meaning the principle of hashing, the hardware development and the use and elaboration of fw and sw, where do you suggest me to start and to collect material to study?
2) I would love to use the A1 chip: to buy them and build my miners with them; is there some generous one which would give me schematic to build working boards or at least sell them to me for a friendly price?
3) While I promise to study and try my best to become independent or even better, a contributor to the forum, is there someone who can help me with the programming?

Thanks in advance for the patience with my naif post.

As a very modest contribution I would like to announce that living in North Italy, just two hours away from Bitmine.ch, I'm ready to help anybody who can benefit from that.

Good day!