E2E forum has a very nice feature which saves all previous postings and search with key words will bring you all related posts. If you use "Beginner" as key word to search, you will find this latest post by Jon:
http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/c5000/f/109/p/330466/1152264.aspx#1152264
Try and start from there.
Regards.