Getting started with a Pentax Camera? Resources?

I'm BRAND new to photography and I'm looking for resources on how to get started. I just got an entry level pentax k-500 slr camera for my birthday. I didn't see much beginning resources on youtube regarding my camera. Only canons. Nikons. Etc. Any ideas?

Your manual will tell you how to operate the camera.

As for how to grow in photography, strongly recommend a photography course. In the meantime, there are gobs of online tutorials. Here are three of my favorites.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/...olour.com/

http://creativelive.com/courses/
- I recommend the "Fundamentals of Digital Photography"

http://www.geofflawrence.com/photography_tutorials.htm

All D-SLR's work the same!

First concentrate on the instruction manual and don't worry about lenses! Take lots of pictures and record what you are doing such as exposure used. Maybe you take a picture and the background is fuzzy. That tells you to use smaller lens openings or f/stops. Photography best learning comes from experimentation. If you want reading material I highly suggest books by Scot Kelby. They sell at about $15-16.00.each. He writes in volumes and give you access to his web sight which has real world examples of the work he is teaching in the book. By the time you have digested even just one of his books, you will have the confidence to move further in your quest to take better photographs.
Don't worry about Canon & Nikon while fine cameras, the Pentax is also my favorite, coming from years of using Canon film cameras. I feel the Pentax is better "human engineered!". Also don't discount photo courses, like at night school. Etc.

General matters about any good brand of SLR can be read in connection with your Pentax, so take a quick skim through the Canon and Nikon items.

Once you have loaded the film correctly then any SLR of that vintage will work fairly similarly. You need to set the ASA (now called ISO on modern film packaging) [if the camera has a built-in meter, I can't remember about that model] and then you need to set the shutter speed, aperture, and focus as needed.