1.See the classic books :
Programming Windows by Charles Petzold;
Programming Microsoft Visual C++ by by David J. Kruglinski;
Programming Windows With MFC by Jeff Prosise;
2.At the very beginning, u'd learn from others' samples, so many samples u can find via this huge cyberspace, such as www.codeproject.com, www.codeguru.com, www.vckbase.com and so forth....
3.Practies makes perfect, do some projects of lightweight but neat, have a nice code style is useful for ur future.
Anyway, don't fear the coming difficulties,it's normal for every beginners, try to resolve them yourself, don't omit handy book--MSDN,in fact, most of questions can be settled there
I think most important thing lies in ur thinking of programming, VC just is a tool, u r the master