If you don't know anything about mining, this is probably best place to start:
http://myriadplatform.org/simplicity/
Although I think a new simplicity release is coming today or tomorrow, so you might want to wait a day or so.
If you are mining on Windows, there is a new qubit miner that is supposed to be significantly faster than sph-sgminer here:
https://github.com/MaxDZ8/M8M/releases/tag/376-preAlpha
For any algo, I would recommend mining on p2pool, but especially if you are scrypt mining, as that is the only place merge-mining is implemented (if you want some free doge, pesetacoin, syscoin, etc.). Check out the link here if you want to get started merge mining (you can also find p2pool nodes here):
http://myriad.p2pool.geek.nz/merge