As others have said, learning some basic chords is really important and useful no matter what sort of music you want to play.
Personally though I tend to gravitate toward fingerstyle playing, where I am picking out melodies and accompaniment all at once (building all of this off of the chordal structure of a song - often my left hand is in the positions of the various chords, more or less, while the melody and accompaniment is picked out using the notes in the various chords). If this sort of playing interests you, and if mastering this sort of playing is something you might want to aim for, you should know that there are some amazing collections of tablature for fingerstyle guitar on the Web. One of my favorites is:
http://www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com
This web site is simply amazing. There are more pieces there than I will ever have time to learn in my entire life, especially considering the slow rate that I learn them (I worked on "Bach Minuet"from the Chet Atkins section for a year before I had it memorized and more or less playable...but I still have not yet managed to play it all the way through without messing up multiple times).
The majority of pieces on this website are surely far beyond you at this point, and it seems that even in the beginner/intermediate section more pieces would fall into the intermediate category than the beginner category. However, there are some that are relatively easy to learn and play.
The arrangement of "Edelweiss" (a pretty song from the musical The Sound of Music), looks pretty easy, for example (I tried it out last night), and is a fairly pretty-sounding arrangement that is satisfying to play. There are a few spots that might be a little tricky for a beginner (a few spots where the left hand might feel especially awkward), but overall it is not too complicated, and a piece like that (or some other not-too complicated piece that might interest you more) would probably be pretty manageable.
Even simpler pieces like this will take a LONG time to master when you are first starting out though. You will need to play them over and over and over again...for weeks, months.....
When I was starting out with banjo when I was in high school, I played Cripple Creek and Foggy Mountain Breakdown (the Flatt and Scruggs piece used in the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" back in the 60's or 70's) really badly, many times a day, every day for at least a year before they really started to flow smoothly from my fingers. I gradually started working on other pieces, and after another year or two everything really started to click. It was only then that I could play ANYTHING really really well (and finally, I could even play those first two pieces well too!).
Everything will feel awkward at first. A lot of things will feel impossible at first. But if you keep plugging away at it, it will all start to feel comfortable and familiar. I can practically play Foggy Mountain Breakdown (and a lot of other pieces that I have played a lot) in my sleep at this point.
You need to be able to take pleasure in small incremental improvements in your playing, and be stubbornly persistent. If you keep plugging away at it, and enjoy the ride along the way, you'll be amazed by the progress you can make. Things that seemed impossible at first will become second-nature.
The more you play, the better you will get, but it is also amazing how much progress you can make even if you have only 1/2 hour a day or so to play.
By the way, I have never really viewed all my work on learning guitar and banjo as "practicing" – to me, that makes it seem like work. I always have viewed what I have been doing as just sitting down and playing guitar (or banjo) for fun, even though what I was doing could just as easily have been called practicing.
Yep, practice-practice & practice! Don't get frustrated and love what you do. It will come to you just be patient & be eager to learn.
