Welcome!

When you decided to learn to ride a bicycle did reading about it first help? Same thing with R/C flight. It's great to know the basics but NOTHING is better than having an experienced bike rider running along side and coaching you . . . and catching you WHEN you start to fall (not if . . . when). Having an instructor and mentor can mean the difference between learning and enjoying and being frustrated and wasting a lot of cash on expensive mistakes. Find a club with a flight school. Pick some brains on what to build into a model. Pick up some ideas on what you might like instead of building a model that won't satisfy you once you have some flight hours in - for whatever reason. No reason you can't build a wonderful model without knowing how to fly. But tayloring one to your preferences (once you know what they are) is why building is better than buying ARFs.

Be patient and practice, practice, practice.