I'd probably suggest going though the fundamentals courses first. That'll give you a general idea of the basic ideas necessary to get a general understanding of how to place your fingers according to the generally 'acceptable' way of how to play beginner guitar.

From there, you may want to advance a little into alternate fingering positions and strumming techniques that involve using fingers to mute unplayed notes.

Once you get a good handle on those, it's probably time to move on to barre chords, This will open up the whole fretbard for you and allow you to transpose chords to other keys..

At the same time as all this, try to have fun experimenting with actual songs and attempting leads and scales. All the while keeping in mind that the end result is to male melodic music and give the listener an emotional experience.

A lot of guitarist tend to bog themselves down with theory and scales and kinda forget that the main aim of music is to impart an emotion and feeling to the listener.

Hence, my suggestion to work on theory and scales to a certain point... but then just go nuts and improvise your butt off occasionally to renew your feel for why you took up guitar in the first place :)