Welcome aboard

All the links above are great. Apart from doing these tutorials, I would suggest you to follow the discussions on various forums regularly, they can be of great help many times as you come to know what all can go wrong and how to correct it along with how to do things right. You might be interested in trying your hands on one of the rendering challenges here.
Wish you all the best in your 3D journey and a very happy new year to you too!