Obviously the building process is different. You have to thickness your soundboard back and sides correctly, brace the soundboard and back, bend the sides and attach them to the neck and tail block, glue in the kerfed lining in the side/block assembly, then you'll need some way of trimming the kerfed lining and sides to match the radiused profile of the back and soundboard, then attach the back and soundboard. The neck is quite similar to an electric guitars' neck, but fitting it isn't. You gotta have the right amount of neck angle for your bridge. Then figure if you want to attach your neck now, or finish the body and neck separately, like if you want a gloss finish on the body and satin for a nice feel on the neck. Then trim away the finish on the soundboard so you can attach the bridge...and binding the body/neck is thrown in there somewhere.
My very first guitar was an acoustic from scratch, I've built ukuleles and a flat-top mandolin and I also worked at Northwood guitars for five months, so I've learned alot about acoustic guitar construction. I definatly recommend a kit, the STEWMAC KIT in particular, it comes with a video too. The StewMac kit is designed for beginners requiring minimal tools. You can actually view the instructions online on the StewMac website, so you could get an idea of what it'll be like.
There different tools in acoustic guitar building, too. Radius dishes for bracing, radius dishes for forming the profile on the sides/blocks assembly, bending iron, go-bar decks for brace gluing and attaching to back and soundboard to the side assembly...though the StewMac kit is designed to require minimal tools.