Is Resharper good for a beginner

It totally depends on your own taste and working habits. If you are a bit overwhelmed with already existing bells and whistles, I would advise to hold on. I personally feel no need in Resharper and avoid any add-ons whenever possible. Perhaps you may want to take some intermediate route. It's important to be absolutely confident will all your tools before you start "big development" or just some real projects. It is really important to sharpen your tools and use them later without paying to much attention for them, focusing on you work. Not doing this state appropriately is one of the most common beginner's mistakes. You can gain this confidence first and then try out Resharper, when you are already armed with this experience.

One problem is that Resharper is commercial and not open source. I avoid such things by all means, but you might have different views. Then you can use available 30-day trial. Always try everything before you buy.

Consider these considerations only as a food for thought. Your working habits and psychology may suggest a very different way. All people are very different, and not many really realize how much different, that's why some people try to convince others following their successful experience, but I would be more careful with that. That's why I try to explain/motivate my suggestions, so you can check my considerations up using your critical thinking.

However, I'm afraid if you already making a big mistake. Tools should not offer "simplified way of coding". Such simplified ways often provide shortcuts which can lead to lack of understanding what you are doing. Even the tools like standard Visual Studio designers have strong adverse effect on developers who cannot use their critical thinking or just lazy. You should never avoid "hard ways", in order to avoid serious hardness in future, which can even lead to lack of mere most basic professionalism. So, you need to lean everything starting with the fundamental in all cases. The role of good tools is different: they offer not "simplified way of coding", but, instead, increased performance. Can you see the difference? Increased performance is nearly opposite to "learning less": you learn more, but gain better convenience, performance and quality of your work. You need to seek ways to learn more, not less. At the same time, you need to save time on learning ad-hoc, too concrete things (particular tools is one of such things), in order to focus on fundamentals. Please don't try to catch me of controversy: you really need to learn your tools to perfection, but save time to learning too many insignificant and too concrete detail. Telling one from another needs considerable experience.

With all that in mind, you decide.

—SA