I am also new to Lazarus, (2 or 3 day's) my previous experience with Pascal was in the days of punched cards and teletype printers, so it is all completely new to me.
I found the site linked below, which is a real dream. It is really for Delphi but working through the tutorials of interest very quickly gave me a grasp of the Lazarus IDE, which, by design, has the look and feel of Delphi.
Don't be put off by the fact it does not use heavy graphics, narrow your browser window to a side panel and you will quickly realize that this site is meant to be used as a sidebar reference for beginners while writing their own code.
http://sheepdogguides.com/tut.htm