These are both excellent references but as good as they are (and they are really good) at showing individual techniques and areas of AE they are not really training guides.
I've said this before and will recommend it again. Go out and buy a copy of Trish and Chris Meyer's book (Creating Motion Graphics vol 1). I guess there is a £$ investment to this approach rather than the free resources on the interweb but the cost of their first book (maybe as much as £30 UKP) is negligible compared to nopt only the cost of the software licence you have just bought but also to the time investment you will surely need to make to get the most from this s/w (which is the 'real' cost involved here).
This book will take you through the tool and just about all it can do rather than give you quick fixes to a few individual problems.
A tad dated now but the Angie Taylor book (for AE5.5) is good too!
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