I would not agree with the above post. Small, electric, Micro-Helis are too skittish, and touchy for a beginner to learn on. I speak from experience. A beginner will become discouraged quickly with a cheap micro heli.
Bigger is more stable, more expensive and more fun.
It's of course personal preference, but I didn't like my $200 micro-heli after it turned into a $500 heli from all the crashes. And not to mention, the all in one electronics on those things don't work well at all... unless you can rip them apart and move them to different places on the machine.
The receiver will get interference from the other electronics, and make your micro want to do some really blood pressure raising things..

Just myopinion... from experience.