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buy some junk, practice with hardware
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This is the best advice. You'll learn a lot more about what is possible/practical from just getting your feet wet than from technical documents at first. My setup works now reasonably well and it's almost 100% equipment bought from Bill because he needed better (better accuracy or GPIB-capable). I now am big on moving to labview a couple of years after I started for a simple fact:
I am testing almost all the time and it's getting to be a chore to sit in the basement and watch the clock and write down numbers/twiddle valves
But it took me YEARS to get to that point.