Learning is best by doing.

I would take a look at some of Mikes excellent tutorials and try replicate them.
http://www.k4icy.com/tutorials.html

I have some videos in French but some visual! ;)
http://moiscript.weebly.com/

Thanks all, joined grabcad and as advised will work my way through any Tut's I can find.

Let the games commence, :-)

Pete