Cartography : Beginner

[Vishal Nagpal]

I have the basic understanding of Mapserver working (the demo is working
with own data and mapfiles, various formats), but yet to experiment with
cartography skills,
Having wasted three days trying to install/run php_mapscript starting with
5.2.1, still not working
I am looking for some guidance into cartography for beginners,
Cartoweb3   or Chameleon or any other tutorial, how about java, any
tutorials..........

Regards,
Vishal