I 100% agree with spoon here.

Yes, experimenting is good to learn advanced concepts. But if you don't have the basics down you'll screw yourself eventually.

Let's say a 15 year old kid wants to be a racedriver one day. He better learn using clutch, gearshift (you americans all drive automatics but you get the point) and steering wheel properly before thinking about outmaneuvering the leader in the final corner of the indy500 using the slipstream to his advantage.

Sugar Nut

[EDIT]
nice Avatar change while I was posting this Spoon. Ohhh Yeaahh