The quickstart tutorial is a great way to begin, maybe read it again? There's also this one:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/zend-framework-php-tutorial.html
From the above link:
This tutorial is intended to give a
very basic introduction to using the
Zend Framework to write a very basic
database driven application.
And here's a list of ZF tutorials for beginners:
Introduction and database
Tutorial: http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-tutorial/
Source Files here
Authentication
Tutorial:
http://akrabat.com/zend-auth-tutorial/
Source Files here
Forms
Tutorial: http://akrabat.com/zend-framework/simple-zend_form-example/
Source Files here
File Upload
Tutorial: http://akrabat.com/zend-framework/simple-zend_form-file-upload-example-revisited/
Source Files here
Layout
Tutorial: http://akrabat.com/zend-framework/simple-zend_layout-example/
Source Files here
I would make sure they're not for much earlier versions of the ZF before diving in.
