I'd recommend a couple of fundamentals:
The Zone System, to understand how to do exposure rightly, so you're always keeping as much as you can within your film/sensor's range,
& Strobist, for working with light, the substance that you're capturing.
McNally's books might be worth borrowing from your library..
Photo.net was good, a decade or 2 ago, haven't been there lately.
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