First of all, you should start reading all the information you can get. The department of natural resources has a nice page online, that gives you many information on hunting. Feel free to go there and look up the regulations. They also list hunting classes in your area!
Second, go to this link and sign up for the NRA for free, or you might end up having to hunt with a stick at some point.
After that, here is my advice:
You seem to have no experience with hunting or firearms in general. There are many ways to harvest a deer and all of them require skill to some extent and a lot of patience. You can legally use either a modern rifle or shotgun, muzzleloader, bow or crossbow. Each of them works fine if the hunter knows what he or she is doing.
After you find one method to your liking, try the weapon of choice on the range (preferably a borrowed one). Bows and crossbows require most training, firearms somewhat less. If you feel that you can hit a deer at the most likely distance with whatever you choose, you may want to go ahead, purchase said tool and train with it some more. If your choice is a rifle, make sure of hunting opportunities, where it is allowed. Not all counties allow deer hunting with a rifle but you will see that in the regs.
Then, go hunting with an experienced partner. I doubt that you know how to field-dress a deer and transport it back (which is a pain alone) and help will be really necessary.
Another good point of advice - make yourself comfortable with the area you want to hunt in well in advance. If you want, you can go in before season and stalk your prey with a camera. That way you will know what animal to look for where.
Hunting course - how not to fall out of trees and how not to shoot yourself. Common sense should tell you 95% of the things they teach you, the rest is within the grasp of a 5-year olds reasoning.
