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Well, you're an unlicensed ham.  That is, you probably had little experience on the CB bands, or none at all.  Well here is where you are going to get started.  All you need for materials to learn is pencil, paper, and the question pools.  That's right, the amateur Radio question pools are public domain and are availble everywhere.  There are three discontinued licenses that are now grandfathered.  They were dropped in 2000.
 
The dropped classes are, novice, Technician plus, and advanced. 
 
Novice:  Up until April 15, 2000, candidates had to start off at this step.  Back in the day, you had only one year to move up.  Here you had to use a 5 w.p.m Morse Code (CW) test, and a 30 question examination.
 
Technician Plus:  This was availible untill February 23, 2007.  Under this (after Novice was dropped) all newer hams had to take a 5 w.p.m. CW test in order to have band privliages certain HF bands
 
Advanced:  This too was available untill February 15, 2000.  a 13 w.p.m. CW test was required to get this designation (this and the extra 23 w.p.m. test were dropped in favor of the 5 w.p.m. test.
 
The three Licenses Classes are now Technician, General, and Extra.
 
Technician Class Licenses must take a 35 question test and must get a minimum of 26 to get your very first licence.
 
General Class Licensess must also take a 35 question test and get a 26 to pass.  There will be one technical schematic question on this test.
 
Extra Class Licenses must take a 50 question test and need a 37 to pass.  This is a more technially advanced test that has 12 questions alone of schematics, and also more obscure parts of part 97 rules, and building your own rigs.
 

 
Did you get all that?  Good, now we're going to move on to the band plans. and will concentrate only on the Technician, General, and Extra class privlages, and the plan itself.
 
Oh...and by the way, for all communications you must call off your call sign every ten minutes withotu exception.  Most would say their calls after they're passing off to a contact.