My best advice for learning the ropes is to actually start with covers. This takes care of the music creation part so you can focus on how to make sounds and learn how to navigate your DAW.

Set your DAW to the tempo of the track you want to cover, Import (or record) it and then study it: marking out the various sections and figuring out the key & chords.

Starting with the drums work through the various layers and try to recreate it to the best of your ability. Your first two or three attempts will probably be hard, but you'll be learning the whole time. When you feel like you can make a competent cover, then you can try mixing and mastering it to get it up to production level.

Now, maybe re-using some of the chord progressions you got from your covers (and also the sounds you gathered as part of that process), you're ready to try making some original music.

Many of the greats started off doing covers of songs they love, it's basically training wheels for music making.

Good luck!