DE2 board and Qsys

Terasic normally ship the board with "My First NIOS II Tutorial" and PDFs like that.

The University Program site has additional tutorials:

http://www.altera.com/education/univ/software/unv-software.html

Click on the links on the left of that page, eg., Digital Logic.

and here's one I wrote and posted on the wiki:

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/using_the_usb-blaster_as_an_sopc/qsys_avalon-mm_master_tutorial

There are several versions of the DE2 board; DE2, DE2-70, DE2-115. The tutorial just has the original DE2 board in there, but it'll be enough for you to get to grips with the tools.

Cheers,

Dave