If this is aimed at beginners then now you made them so confused. Why? This is how I would see 7 common rules for beginners or total newcomers to DSLR photography. Are you interested? Then keep reading. If not, sorry for bothering. 
1. Learn the buttons on the DSLR what they do. 2. Read about ISO setting how to set it for daylight and low light3. Read about WB setting how to set it for daylight and any other light source different then white4. Start to shoot in P program mode to learn how the camera measures the exposure – those are the numbers you see in format: 1/number and f number – or  shutter speeds and aperture numbers :)5. Be in control over AF – select single 1 point AF and learn how to focus and recompose6. Shoot in slow pace, not thousands of shots – less is more this time and preview images on LCD. Judge your images carefully, what you did good what wrong and learn from your mistakes7. Do not stop learning. Shoot every day. Practice is the key and once you understand how the camera with all those buttons and settings work then slowly switch to S,A or M exposure mode to start to create something what you have in vision and not your D4 :)The FS website is a nice source of information for many photographers and cinematographers out there. But lately this kind of silly meaningless articles just lower the quality of it. Again, this is just a simple opinion of a guy who also has a camera and love the photography. The author put together a mess. How can he expect a guy who is new to DSLR to know what RAW does, how M exposure mode work if he teaches the same guy how to charge the battery..? Makes no sense. Does it? If this post gets deleted it makes me no harm, I just wanted to share my opinion and maybe look at the theme from a different perspective. Even thou English is not my native language I hope I made my point :)

I basically split time between Hyper P and manual modes, am I being lazy, or using my equipment to the best advantage?