I started out with the strappy dealies and later went to clipless.
That necessitated learning two different manuvers to remove my foot from the pedal. I think it would have been easier to just learn clipless right off-sure I would have crashed trying to get my foot off the pedal but I found I did anyway, trying to pull it back like it was toeclips instead of twisting. I crashed while learing to deal with toeclips too, so I would have saved myself one set of crashes.