How do you connect the led????

Hi,
I am new at this whole thing and I appologize for asking this silly question but how exactly do you connect the led to port 13 so you can use that to see if everything is working all right. Do you just stick in there on lead of the led and the other to a power supply??? Also, I am wondering if they are easier ways to stick cords and stuff like that into arduino by means of something like aligator clips or something easy like that.

Thank you very much!
Hopefully one day, I will actually figure out what I am doing!!!!! :wink:

There is more information about how to connect the LED here: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BlinkingLED Basically you just put the long lead of the LED in pin13 and the shorter lead in the hole labeled GND. The Arduino board will supply the power on pin 13.

For wiring things up easily, breadboards are essential. Look here for info: Breadboard - Wikipedia