Mining

Before you get started, there are 2 types of mining:

• Solo Mining 
• Pool Mining

Since mining for Bitcoins is a probability, at the current network if you don't have a substaintial amount of mining/hardware power, chances are you'd have very low chance in obtaining any Bitcoins doing solo mining.
What Pool Mining does is that miners consolidate mining capacity and mine for Bitcoins and the rewards are then distributed via different sharing methods offered by the Pools, usually a small fee is charged by the pool.