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The first thing I would do is to make sure I had a place (with deer) that could hunt. That might be a friends land, pay a landowner a trespass fee, or public land if not overly crowded with both other hunters and out type peoples.
Once you have a spot secured, you need to get whatever it is you are going to be hunting with. As in shotgun, bow, crossbow, whatever.
You need to practice with your weapon until you are proficient with it. The deer deserve a quick clean death.
You need to read your local regs so that you know what to do when hunting. An example would be the proper way to tag a deer once you have killed it.
So far this is all prep work getting ready to actually hunt.
The next step would be to find a place on the property you can hunt that will be a good location. This could be a fence crossing, a food source, a strip of woods the deer use as a path, a place they cross a creek etc....
Next you need to set up a blind or stand. This is assuming you are going to wait patiently for a deer to come to you. This is way more productive than trying to go to the deer.
Your stand needs to be in a place where you can get to it with out spooking deer when you are going and coming. This will be done in the dark often. You need to take into account the prevailing wind direction, and your stand should be comfortable enough for you to wait for several hours.
All this done, you are ready to hunt.
