Suggestions on effectively learning NIOSII Soft programing

Hi,

For starters, you can quickly run through any of the booting methods that your board can perform:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683689/current/processor-booting-methods.html

Choose boot from OCRAM for example:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683689/current/processor-booting-from-on-chip-memory-ocram.html

Go through the steps up until the "Programming" part.

For learning, you can go through the document as a whole.