As Apple’s Final Cut Express software has an extensive user base, there are a great number of publicly available learning resources: books, CD-ROM’s and websites with articles and user forums.

Books:

I recommend learning primarily via hands-on time with FCE combined with a clearly written, well-organized book. Books continue to have advantages in terms of clarity and organisation of information and ease and quick access to information (retrieval). Once digested, books continue to be useful as handy reference material.

Of all the relevant books I strongly recommend Final Cut Express 4 Visual QuickPro Guide by Lisa Brenneis. My second choice is Tom Wolsky’s Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop. Unlike the Lisa Brenneis book this Wolsky book is "follow along with" / tutorial style. This one I’m not familiar with, but is well reviewed.

Note that as of June 2011, Final Cut Express was officially discontinued, in favor of Final Cut Pro X.

Web Resources:

After that, I recommend additional learning via web resources. What they lack in clear organization, they make up for in terms of providing vast, up-to-date, interactive information.

The best in my opinion is Ken Stone’s discussions and articles site. It is geared to Final Cut Pro, but as Express is very similiar much will be relevent.

Apple’s main Final Cut Express resources and tutorials pages are useful hubs of web resources. As well there is Final Cut Pro ’s support page of web resources.

Final Cut Express Discussions within the Apple Support site. Emphasis on troubleshooting hardware and software issues. Again second choice is Final Cut Pro Discussions within the Apple Support site.

Another useful resource is the LA FCP User Group.

Also, there are podcasts within the Creative Cow aggregate of software tutorials and discussions.

This resource appears to have various QuickTIme tutorials though I haven’t explored it much.

2-pop was once the king of online FCP resources, but I now only occasionally go there:

That should get you started. Happy editing.