When we look at the glossy pictures of Drones on the web and in magazines its all too easy to let your eyes rule your mind, Remember that the adverts are trying to SELL the product on display!! Do you really want to get into a 1500$ DJI Phantom like this one DJI Phantom 3 on day one just because the advert tells you its easy to fly and control. 
Some people will be lucky or just have natural flying skills and they will succeed. The rest of us normal mortals will end up looking at a pile of parts after the UAV has hit a wall or dropped like a brick from 100 feet onto the roadway. A word to the wise, This is a developing technology, nothing is perfect yet, bad things happen.
The preferable way to get into this is available and its cheap. As a newbie you need Cheap, easy to use, safe and REPAIRABLE, The only way to learn to control these devices is to fly them, Bounce them off the walls and floor, chase the cat or dog until the drones goes where YOU want it to go, not where it thinks it should go. This takes “Stick time” Ok, I see the more advanced Drones that you can use with a tablet or wave an Iphone at and it will go to a GPS point and take your picture. Great, love the technology BUT……. What do you do when on the third flight it suddenly turns around and heads for the hills at top speed because you have an out of balance propeller caused by hitting the table leg last night? If you are lucky the battery runs out before it goes out of sight and you get it back, IF you are lucky.
Seriously you need a simple and easy to fly Drone WITH a Radio control system, this keeps YOU in control, if it try’s to fly away you can cut the throttle and it lands. simple . NO loss.
Crashes, you WILL crash, you will need spare parts (hopefully not too many) you will curse when you turn Left instead of Right and hit the wall, you will lower the throttle and fall to the ground when you get disoriented. The good news is this will happen less often each time you fly. it will take some time so stick with it.
The BEST training Quad out there is the Hubsan X4 H107C ,
It’s small , no assembly to do, it’s cheap (60-75$) and comes with everything you need, buy some spare propellers and batteries and go fly in the time it takes you to charge the batteries. on the subject of spare parts did you know that EVERY part for the Hubsan is available as a spare part? What more could you ask?
You can fly indoors or outdoors (Watch out for Wives, Husbands, Mothers, Fathers and the Wind in that order), Make each flight have a goal, don’t just wander the Drone around. once you have the hang of the basic controls get used to hovering, moving towards you and away from you, fly and land on a specific point on the driveway or land on a table. All these are the most valuable skills you can learn.
A little tip for indoor flying.. Keep away from the ceiling, As you get close the airflow into the propellers is reduced and the motors speed up, the Drone then hits the ceiling, stops the propellers and falls to the floor. ouch
Later when you graduate to the bigger and more complex GPS camera Drones and your Drone loses the GPS signal leaving you with NO alternative but to hand fly your machine back home you will be glad of every flight you made with the Hubsan and your newly developed flying skills. Have Fun.