[CBFryman]

I learned on a dirt road, first learn how to accelerate in a straight line, once yo uget moving its easy. if the car starts bucking push the cluch in, if you are going at any speed, shift to the next gear, the higher the gear the less likely it is for the car to start bucking
learning to drive in a boat like my moms Nissan Frontier keeps you from bucking, higher perfomance cars that can pull your foot away from the accelerater in 1st or 2nd and then the compression slwoing the car down making your foot go on an off an so on is what causes the bucking.
after you get moving shifting is easy...but before you go out sit in the car with it off and the clutch in shifting through all gears to 5th and then back down to 4th several times untill you get a good feeling for that particualr tranny.
Some people it takes years, me i drive better than my mom and ive been doing it for a little over a year. i am a lot more smooth than she is and she first learned how to drive in a manual and had owned 5 manual vehicles since, including an Escourt GT.
As far as hills are concerned, dont do what is stated above (dragin the parking brake, this causes premature ware, a lot like handbrake drifitng). i use a heal toe method, but for you a small roll back is nothing to be discouraged about. if it comes down to it, put it in neutral, set hte parking brake FIRMLY and get out and KINDLY ask the person behind you to move back some, explain that you are learning to drive a manual and that you are learning not to roll back. in most cases they will understand, and if not then just sit there, they will give you the room eventually.

When you get good ad accelerating and decelerating/downshifting in a striahgt line try a few turns, know where your car stands as to what gear to put it in, we arent racing, you dont have to have it in gear going around the corner, its ok to coast in neutral around corners. once you know how to drive it and have gotten comfertable with cars coming out of corners will go smoother as you will know what gear to select before entering and there wont be any jerk form the suncro or improperly mached revs.
to give you an idea, 1st is mostly just a gear to get you started in daily driving, 2nd can handle all the way down to 5mph or less in most cases with out stalling or going to insanely low RPM's, when coming out of a corner 2nd is good up to 20mph in most cases (20 you will rpobably need to give it some gass if you coasted/idled around the corner) 3rd 15-30 (agian, the higher your speed the more likely hood some reving iwll be needed, it saves your syncro's and makes thing smoother) and if yo uare taking croners that require downshifting any higher than that you are a crazy driver...
when stoping/slowing, dont even try engine braking untill you get good at just driving, shif into neutral and take you fott off the clutch and just stop like you would an auto. as you learn more you can start to engine brake, double clutch to down shift (say from 5th to 3rd, syncro's dont like that unless you slow down significantly)
double cluting isnt needed if your car is equipted with syncro mesh gears... but as you get good at it you can use it to make thing smoother and to save wear on the tranny as the syncro's have to do less work.
if you are learning do drive a manual with a car that doesnt have syncro mesh gears... ever head the saying "grind'em till you find'em" ? because you will be doing a lot of grinding.