First Time Miner, need some tips and tricks when starting mining

Yeah, First Time Miner, need some tips and tricks when starting mining for Side Cash:

1, What Software should I use?

2, What GPU should I choose? (Only need to buy 1, Budget one or Mid-range one would be nice)

3, For Other components, What should I buy? Do I need a good CPU? Big RAM? Large Storage? Big PSU??

4, Any Website to track growth of the coin?