Getting Started with Arduino
Massimo’s short text is an excellent introduction to the hardware and software sides of the Arduino and contains a walk-through for uploading a sketch to the board, basic programming techniques, interfacing with common sensors, troubleshooting techniques, and some interesting notes about tinkering, physical computing and interaction design. The book is based on a collection of notes that were formerly available within the Arduino wiki. The notes were removed when the book was released, but fortunately I saved a copy and you can download them here.
The book is available from amazon.com or comes as a companion to the Arduino starter kit available from the Maker Shed.
I don’t have too much experience with arduino, but isn’t the point that you can use a bootloader, and you don’t have to use a programmer, like the AVRISP? Are you trying to use the onboard FTDI USB/serial converter, with the emulated STK500 bootloader programmer?
Maybe you can help me figure out how to use my AVRISPMKII with AVR Studio and Arduino IDE without having to uninstall/install the driver over and over again.
AVR Studio uses the Jungo driver, and ArduinoIDE/AVRdude uses the libusb driver