That forum post explained most everything.

My friend is new to arduino and I gave him a TinyDuino, TinyShield USB & ICP and a TinyShield Proto Board 1.
I then soldered some female headers on the TinyShield Proto Board 1 and he has done  a lot of examples form the net using this setup.
For the pin question I pointed him to the forum post that explains the pins and he has worked it out for himself.

May be someone can make a table or something to make it easier for new people to work it out ,I don't have a pc where I am now so it's a but hard.

TinyDuino : http://tiny-circuits.com/shop/tinyduino-processor-board/
TinyShield USB & ICP : http://tiny-circuits.com/shop/usb_icp_tinyshield/
TinyShield Proto Board 1: http://tiny-circuits.com/shop/tinyshield-proto-board-1/

Female headers :http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Pcs-2mm-Pitch-20-Pin-Female-Single-Row-Straight-Pin-Header-Strip-/181118896067?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a2b8707c3

You can use any headers you like with 2mm spacing,I just go these and then cut them in to 4 rows of 8

Re: Tiny Duino for beginners?

After putting full headers on two protoboards (which was a bit challenging...), I would add one thing about the tiny duinos that while obvious, but might not be apparent to a real beginner: You need to be pretty darned good at soldering to work on boards this small (Especially on protoboard 1). If you haven't had much practice there, then I would recommend you buy a few protoboards and just try to solder ten wires to each one, in holes right beside each other.  If you get through that without bridging any contacts, then you know you are good to go, at least on the physical side of things.  Otherwise it might be good to start on a bigger board with bigger contacts pads.