It depends if you want to do digital photography or regular photography. Digital photography is easier in most cases, seeing as the digital cameras these days do pretty much everything for you. However, manual cameras will give much better results if you know how to use them.
Photography is fun, but learning about it is extremely boring. I suggest you start with digital photography, so that you can first learn and practice capturing pictures from different angles, and not have to worry about light exposure and shutter speed and all that other crap.