For people who are in need of resources for jquery slideshow tutorials, this is the place for you.It has the bunch of tutorials in web that is meant for beginners.Every tutorial is explained a step by step manner.Some of the tutorials uses jquery cycle plugin for making it simple.
1.WEBTUTS:
Surprised! 
. Its one of the post in webtuts.It is explained with graphical figures.You could check it out. - LINK
2.jQuery Image Swap Gallery with Just 3 Lines of Code!
Tutorial Link - http://www.designchemical.com/blog/index.php/jquery/jquery-image-swap-gallery/
3.simple jquery slideshow tutorial using jquery-cycle
Tutorial Link - http://www.unleashed-technologies.com/blog/2011/06/17/simple-jquery-slideshow-tutorial-%E2%80%93-using-jquery-cycle
4.Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery
Tutorial Link - http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/javascript_tutorial/create-a-slick-and-accessible-slideshow-using-jquery/
5.Build a Simple Image Slideshow with jQuery Cycle
Tutorial Link - http://line25.com/tutorials/build-a-simple-image-slideshow-with-jquery-cycle
6.Simple JQuery Slideshow
Tutorial Link - http://www.webchiefdesign.co.uk/blog/simple-jquery-slideshow/index.php
7.Youtube
I found this video in youtube,gives a very good tutorial for beginners.
