not sure if that should be happening like that... can't really tell what you did to get like that unless you took a video
anyway, there's not reason why you shouldn't not learn how to lay out uvs
you can stick with just the nodes in the hypershade for now if you want, but if you think you can handle textures then by all means go for it
that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"
Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D