Strongly recommended · for beginners
KiCAD Quick-Start Tutorial
Why people recommend it
A roughly twenty-minute KiCad walkthrough from schematic through footprint association to layout, praised by several people as the tutorial that got them to a finished board.
Watch for: Fast-paced, so expect to pause; made on an early KiCad release
In their words
One of the video tutorial shows that 3D view should incorporate components placed on the board:
Roman Matveev on electronics.stackexchange.com, Sept 2015. CC BY-SA.