So I have a question. FPGA development really interests me, but I really don’t know where to get started. I’ve done a bit of embedded systems work, mostly with WinCE 5 a decade or so back and some work on video slot machines, but nothing at this level. What would be a good place to start? Most of the things I have looked at seem to assume a slightly higher level of knowledge than I currently have.

This is crazy helpful for beginners: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

They have drag and drop FPGA programming using visual gates and cores with very well documented examples.