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[bigmcstrongmuscle]

Full-size worlds mostly have the advantage of having lots and lots of interesting places to build. Less valuable for a new player who's still learning the works, but good if you want to build a fort in a haunted/terrifying tundra with a limestone layer or on a volcanic island with a cave.

[ShadeJS]

Yeah, I have to echo that pocket worlds are too small. I like to play in areas that have running water and a magma vent, so I usually play on a map one size down from the default and on a 4 x 4 area, following rivers to look for vents.

REMEMBER, IN ANY GRID SYSTEM 1/2 THE SIZE IS 1/4 OF THE AREA / OVERHEAD / RESOURCES. As it is for your desktop wallpaper so it is for dwarf fortress. Well, probably less so for DF as there are probably fixed things that are size independent, but it holds true in a general way.

[Greiger]

While bored on a friends computer I saw a few reasonably good tutorials for DF on Youtube.

Really long youtube DF tutorial thingy.  multipart. There are a couple others too but they are rather easy to find by just typing Dwarf Fortress in youtube's search.

I haven't watched it all the way through but it seems pretty good from the first few parts.  His hallways aren't wide enough in my opinion and he does a few other things I don't completely agree with but it is sound.

[Balistora]

i've watched RPGenies tutorials at least 3 times (=\ dunno why...although i do wonder what seed he used)