very new - a good starting appreciated

[stancoin]

So far I've done some background reading, downloaded and installed a bitcoin client and it runs fine.
Certainly exercises the disc drive - seems it has to DL all previous transactions.
I don't pretend to know what I'm doing yet 
At the moment I can't get a handle on how to actually generate bitcoins in the first place. So just to ask some kind soul
for a starting point as to the overall picture here.
thanks vm

[tysat]

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15918.0

Look through that and you'll see a link to http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9430.0