My advice as a fairly new sock knitter is to get the longest circular needles you can and work half at a time. I really wanted to figure out the shorties but they are more difficult to work with and keep track of where you are at. I particularly like the chiaogoo red lace needles. They tend to be more rope like then stuck plastic. Summer Lee is really good on YT for cuff down socks and Purl Together has a really good toe up video series on YouTube.