This is a tough platform to learn from scratch on your own.I am one of Adobe's AEM trainers and so, of course, I'm going to recommend you come to training.  The class that would give you the boost you need is:  Develop Websites and Components in Adobe Experience Manager.That said, I think I can give...

Looking at the list of HTL Global Objects in the documentation log is listed as a java-backed object backed by org.slf4j.Logger.My question is, how can I use it?I can't find any examples of it.Thinking about it, this is a specific case of a more general question; How can I call methods and pass para...

No.  There is no need for an include like the global.jsp in Sightly. All of the Context Objects that are initialized by the global.jsp in the JSP environment are already present and initialized in the Sightly environment.  They have the same names and functionality.See this page in the documentation...

No, there is no equivalent import necessary in Sightly.All of the objects that are initialized in the JSP environment by the global.jsp import are already present and initialized in the Sightly environment.See this page & heading: http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/sightly.html#Context Ob...