Yeah eve is the only mmo i can think that rewards players with a tactical/strategic mind and quick reactions for micro managing your own ship and fleet.
As simple as point lock and F1 F2 etc seems, there is a level of play here where setting your ideal orbit range and speed, overheating your guns for a few seconds, beginning boost/repper cycle, triggering your cap booster, stopping cap booster, deagressing for the gate jump and session timers may actually get you a few kills here and there and come out with a battered yet with a ship nevertheless.
There are lots of factors that come into play that you might not know of, like increasing transversal to make yourself harder to hit or take less damage, and increasing speed so that missiles do next to nothing, staying out of web range and knowing what ships are and how they are likely to engage you.
All of these above skills mentioned no sp exists for you to get good at like leveling up in wow does, this all boils down to real experience and your judgement on the situation to be able to pilot your ship and either commit for a sure kill or disengage if it looks like a losing battle.
This is why a lot of solo pvpers will use small ships from frig hulls to cruiser sized hulls. But before you get to that stage i urge you to join a corp that will teach you to look at situations, work as a team and make use of what you are sat in and basically learning more about the game and different play styles.
Trading btw can be a major isk making excersies, as can salvaging things ppl don't want (ask first). As mentioned before stealing and scamming can make you money quick should you choose to go that route. There's even racing and player run events and competitions you can win isk on if you know where to look.
