Another thing to do is not learn on your car. Depending on how hard the transmission is learning on your car might actually make you worse. My father had a G6 GXP, with what has to have been the worst clutch and transmission combo ever. I had serious trouble driving it, and I knew how to drive a manual already when I started driving the thing. Every manual is different and I do mean every last one. A couple of people can have two 240s with stock transmissions and stock clutches, but wear and tear can make them feel completely different. So if your having trouble with yours find someone with an S2000 or something that has a really nice and easy transmission, and go around the block (mayhaps offer to pay for gas and lunch or something) get the hang of working a clutch and gas in something easy, then step up to your car, it'll make the learning curve easier. Just stick away from anything american made, GM clutches suck, and all but the last few gens of mustang clutches and transmissions suck.
Here are a few helpful tips:
1: let off the break and slowly and steadily let your foot off the clutch until you start moving. Practice just getting the car to roll like an automatic. This will teach you the butter zone for the engagement of the clutch, build the muscles in that leg, and its good practice for being in tight traffic.
2: Don't be afraid of just bouncing your foot on the throttle to keep the car from stalling.
3: Hills are the enemy, until your good at clutch play stick away from them, or if you must stop on one pull the emergency brake and use it with your clutch and gas to get the car moving. Just feel for the engine pulling against the brakes as you release the clutch. When you feel that its ok to let the hand brake down.
4: Try starting in 2nd, lots of cars have enough torque to start in second and because of the gear ratio it gives you more time between when you disengage the clutch and when you have to have the gas in the right place to keep from stalling.
5: be aware your first clutch will not last as long as the clutches you have after it. You will wear it out with inexperience and practice, it is a certainty. It happens to everyone with their first manual. Well almost everyone.
Here are a few practices to learn to increase the life of your clutch:
1:Heel and toe. As you brake, depress the clutch and with the heel of the right foot blip the throttle as you down shift then release the clutch. This is better for your transmission and your clutch than braking and clutching, then shifting down and releasing the clutch when your ready to accelerate again. My father burns through a clutch faster than you can laugh purely because he doesn't do this.
2: When you try heel and toe the first time you will realize it takes a crap load of practice. While you are learning heel toe(preferably in some parking lot somewhere) substitute double clutching. As you come up to the turn, clutch and pull the transmission out of gear, now brake, and release the clutch, when you've slowed down enough to safely go through the turn clutch and tap the throttle, then put the car into the desired gear before the revs drop and release the clutch. Not as effective as heel toe, but it saves your clutch some wear and tear.
3:Learn to move from one gear to the next quickly and fluidly. My grandfather used to clutch take the car out of gear move the shifter back and forth a couple of times then upshift. The problem with this is the whole time your foot is off the gas. As such the revs drop and the speed of the transmission is different from the speed of the engine, thus the clutch slips a little when you throw it back into gear. This is wear and tear.
There are more ways to save your clutch and to learn to start yourself off from a stop but these will probably fill your waking hours right now. The best thing you can do for yourself is to just find some place to run around and around killing your gas tank. A parking lot works, so does a deserted stretch of road or a pretty inactive part of your housing development. The major thing to look for in a practice area is not having anyone around. This is because of the fact that you won't be as quick on your brakes as you are in an automatic car purely because even if you panic part of your mind will still be thinking about the clutch. Also if people are around there is always some doof who will laugh at you for stalling even if they can't drive a manual themselves yet. The last thing you need is discouragement.
Hope all this helps.
(BTW perhaps this should be a sticky?)