Tutorial
Quick Learning via YouTube
For a more advanced look: Basic Soldering Lesson 1 - "Solder & Flux". A vintage video that's quite thorough - really everything you'll need to know in a brief 20 minutes.
Alternatively, this Australian does a nice job in 11 minutes. Tutorial: Soldering (Electronics)
Steps
- Equipment, Materials, and safety.
- Wire size and type. Cutting and stripping.
- Soldering wire splices
- Printed circuit boards. Soldering wire to boards.
- Bending leads.
- Soldering resistors, clipping leads. (see also http://www.dannyg.com/examples/res2/resistor.htm)
- Soldering multi-lead components.
- Using heat sinks
- Building a simple circuit.