I'd say start by playing tight. Very, very tight. It will be long and boring waiting for good hands. But most of your post flop decisions will be easy and you will learn in the process. Do not bluff, don't do anything fancy, don't steal, don't play speculative hands like suited connectors. Learn to set mine. Just play tight, ABC, mathematical poker and make honest and strong value bets. Don't open up your game too much in position in the beginning. Do it little by little and only against the right villains.
If in doubt, fold. A very big part of winning is not loosing. It will be frustrating waiting an hour for aces only to get sucked out on by some donk. But that's poker and that's part of the learning process.
So play like a nit and in the process you will learn important aspects of the game like discipline and patience. And on that nit platform you will build and add more complex plays. Read books and the forums and post hands you had trouble with (not only the ones where you lost, more importantly the ones where you thought your decision was difficult or maybe wrong even though you won the hand).
And yes: put your opponent on a range, and develop a sense of how your hand is doing against this range.
Good luck
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