Magento – Getting Customer Names

I am trying to display all my users first and last names and email addresses to practice pulling values from the database and joining tables.

I have been trying to dig through the code in app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model to see how to select specific values from two different tables. I can see the data I want is stored in customer_entity_varchar and customer_entity and is linked by the entity_id column but can't find an example of how I could achieve my desired result.

I have been working on the assumption that collections are the way to do it and so far have this

$model = Mage::getResourceModel('customer/customer_collection');

var_dump($model->getData());

but this shows all the columns and I just want email so I tried this

$model = Mage::getResourceModel('customer/customer_collection');

foreach($model as $cust){
    echo '<br/>' . $cust['email'] . '<br/>';
}

but I'm sure a collection would be a better way of doing it. Also I still need to join customer_entity_varchar but I can't find which model I need to use.

Firstly, how do I select customer email and full name? Secondly, Where should I have been looking in the code to get this answer?

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One last attempt I made was

$model = Mage::getResourceModel('customer/customer_collection');
    $model->getSelect()
          ->join(Mage::getConfig()->getTablePrefix() . 'customer', 'main_table.entity_id = ' . Mage::getConfig()->getTablePrefix() . 'customer.entity_id', array('*'));

  var_dump($model->getData());

but got this SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'magentostoretest.customer' doesn't exist