Choice of camera?

[Keri]

Yeah, I've kinda been keeping my eye out for a rebel or D50-60-70+ used in craig's list and kijiji but I think I'd like to take a course on how to actually use them, the last digital camera I bought a year and a half ago for $400 and
a) I don't rreally know how to use it aside from the basics
b) it's broken! it's taking pictures with white lines on them when you zoom in or load it on to the computer. (past the warranty I'm sure, oh well, I did get a lot of pictures out of it before I killed it. )

I think someone on here offered a SW tank photo course a while back but I live on the coast. Something will turn up here tho I'm sure, the sunshine coast has tonnes of artsy people