Recommended · for beginners
Using a 74HC595 to connect an Arduino to a 7-segment LED display - Anything Arduino episode 9
Why people recommend it
Recommended for showing how to wire and program a 74HC595 shift register to drive a seven-segment display from an Arduino.
Watch for: Check whether your display is common anode or cathode
In their words
I found this YouTube video to be very useful in explaining how to wire up and code the shift-register for a 7-segment display.
lemontwist on arduino.stackexchange.com, Jun 2017. CC BY-SA.