The following is a collection of resources helpful for getting into FreeCAD, which is is now in stable release 1.0 after many years of development.
Installation and Weekly Builds
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases
Wiki and Downloading the PDF/EPUB Manual
Follow the Wiki instructions for running the Python script to generate the PDF and EPUB files from the latest version of the Wiki. You will need to install the GTK3 Runtime, and the Python packages used in the script. You may need to install the WeasyPrint library manually by running pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pang in the MSYS2 shell, as instructed here.
https://wiki.freecad.org/FreeCAD_Manual_Converter
Youtube Resources
https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions
MangoJellySolutions Basic Beginners FreeCAD 1.0 (Spreadsheet of playlist episodes. Total runtime ~8hrs).
