Don't top or "fim" autos and try and avoid (unnecessary) defoliation.
Also, never, ever grow at 24/0!
A bit of low stress training like bending or directing branches is all good and fairly easy to master.
Just leaving them alone to do their own thing is also completely acceptable.
The only person you need to please is yourself, not internet warriors!
You can start bending your plants when they have 5 nodes or so, training too early can stress them and it really is never too late to start LST while ever the plants are still in veg.
Training branches is just a matter of waitng for them to be long enough for training!
For your first grow I would suggest concentrating on watering, feeding, lighting (18/6) and general growing practices and once you have a bit more of an understanding of these things, try more "advanced" methods on your next grows perhaps.