haha
Less is more if you're a noob.
Go to a garden center....
Keep it simple, get a topsoil, some perlite and mix it 2/3 soil to 1/3 perlite.
Add in a bag or two of worm castings into this mix. Grow in it.
Blood and Bone meal when you flower.
Shouldnt really need to worry about PH in the soil, get a simple stick in PH meter and if it gets really messed up (-5 or 9+) then fix it.
But you can also pickup a bag of lime at your store and toss a little in; the lime will keep the soil at a steady and constant PH.
Doing it with chemicals will obviously be a little bit cheaper; but this stuff is cheap enough to begin with.
Plus the organic method makes your produce taste better. After you can then try COCO peat and chemical salt based when you masted some of the basics.
This is simple as hell, and way safer for a noob to learn organics before chemical.
Kinda like the way cavemen grew back in the day. So grow sum big tomatoes, eh?