All great advice so far! Be very careful about using Flight Sim to practice, you may be doing something that you think is the correct way and it could be completely wrong. The law of primacy will really hurt you here if this happens.

AFTER getting some real instruction with your instructor it can be a great and free learning and practice tool. Key word here is after. Do not try to teach yourself using flight sim.

If you plan on using digital approach plates and charts through a program like fore flight or wingx, Do NOT use georeferencing. That is only a bandaid during training. Georeferenced plates are a cool situational awareness aid to use AFTER you learn the correct way. I have witnessed more than 1 person fail a checkride because they relied on georeferenced plates and then couldn't fly when their IPad magically failed halfway through the checkride.

Good luck!