What I have done so far

I have been working on After Effects for a few days now and I will guide through each step I took in order to learn the software. First I started with this Video , After Effects for beginners  and I recommend would start with this video here is the link to it :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tR3fpv4Aco  This will get you started on the basics , I strongly recommend that you get a notebook and get started on taking notes. Watch the entire 20 minutes and take notes as much as you can. Your notes can be pictures, sentences, whatever suits you, but it is important that you will understand once you refer back to them. For me, I just filled the pages with notes and on the back of my notebook, I wrote all the key controls and abeviations I needed to learn so I don't forget them.  In this vieo you wil learn about scale, position , oppacity, masking, vignettes, solids, texts what a layer and compostion is and believe me these are very important to get started. I suggest that if you find difficult terms to search them on their own and really understand what they mean. Here is a picture of the tutorial so you are sure that it is the one I used. 

When you finish , save the link of the video in a file called tutorials , and you can name the sub file tutorial one and then save the link in microsoft and save microsoft file in the tutorial 1 folder. 

There is also something very important and it is to organise your saved after effects files.  For example, in this tutorial you will use a downloaded picture and a footage ( video) of some kind and you learn to work with them. These pictures you used must be saved. It is easy , name a file Project1 and inside it create 2 other file, one called assets and the second one call it " a-e composition ". In the assets file save all the pictures and videos you used in your tutorial for after effect, for example , in the first tuturial you will save the video and the image you imported in the after effect soyou don't lose them. Of course  when you save your work on after effects, save the file in th a-e composition, and name the after effect file you saved  something you will not forget and something you learned in this tutorial. For example, name the after effect file : masking , solids, text, basics , whatever..