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I reckon just dive into TIG. Its pretty hard, so whatever happens it will take a while before you feel like you can put together a frame. Its not that other welding would be pointless, its valuable to learn to manipulate a puddle in any welding method, but itd be a better bet to borrow a mates kit and spend a few afternoons melting stuff to get the feel for it, rather than embark on a full course, as i think after a bit you'll be wanting to just get the TIG hoodtime.
Ultimately for most stuff you can spend a few weeks learning MIG off youtube and be fairly successful. But with TIG it took me 4/5 months of frequent practice to get to the stage where i could weld a frame together sort of successfully and it was shite. It wasnt until probably frame 3 or 4 where i started to get the hang of it.