Help me get started with Arduino

That depends on what you want to do.

I asume you want to interface something to Flash via the Arduino board. Whatever that something is, determines what you need.

I have not used flash myself, but a couple of things you could do is to make Flash react to pusbuttons or switches, or potentiometers.

If you have not already read this, you should:

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Flash

Good luck