You're definitely in the right board to ask this important question, and since you didn't ask for a specific area of help, take your time and go through the bombardment of links that has been shared on this thread.

I'll advice you to be active in the forum, go through different boards and check the topics there, if any one interests you, then you can read and learn, if you have any meaningful contributions to make, then you can go ahead. I believe that is the fastest way to learn about bitcoin and altcoins, because you can find threads that talks about important information that you've never thought about