Some of the so-called "eye" is just experience and--if we're being honest--glorious flukes. Given that you're working with a digital camera, shoot a lot of pictures. See what you see. Keep what you like. Delete the rest. Study the ones you like and figure out what the "it factor" is. If you get a glorious fluke, keep it. Study it for what you like about it. Remember these notes and go back out and try to put some of them in motion the next time.
Sometimes, just shooting pictures is what you need to do and see what happens.
To that end, I went downtown today armed with my Vivitar 110 pocket camera from 1975 and shot a roll of 24 black and white. We'll see what comes of it. The Vivitar was an 8th grade graduation present. I saw a Lomography thing on my Instagram feed that mentioned 110 film and I took it as sign. Shooting with the camera made me wonder how I ever was able to get anything good out of it, but it was the camera on which I learned composition. So a few years later when I got my Pentax ME, it was a quantum leap because I had already begun developing the so-called "eye".
Be prepared, you will come across snobs that will prattle on as they try to bully you intellectually for not knowing what they know. Don't give them a second thought. There are "real" photographers who know what they are doing, who are thrilled that you are "doing", and will be happy to answer questions.
There are a LOT of the latter--aka good--people here on this site.
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