Just started my Arduino Start Kit project. Follow along with the instruction manual, and built some simple circuits.
Project 1 was a hand on experience on how to work with switches, resistors, and LED. It also explained the differences on parallel circuit and series circuit. No need to load any program. I had experience about those when I was in college, so I had no difficulty building them.
Project 2 was little bit more fun because this time I would load up a program into Arduino. Since it was like a introduction, and programming was my strong field, so it was a pretty quick built and working instantly.