# Running Storm

This section of the manual covers how to start Storm once it is installed on your system. This part of the manual mainly covers how to launch Storm from the command-line or from other systems. As such, if you are only interested in launching one of the programs that are distributed alongside Storm, you only need to read the subsection running programs.

This section covers is structured as follows:

- Launching Bundled Programs

  This page describes how to launch programs bundled with Storm after installing Storm.

- Launching Storm in a Terminal

  This page describes how to launch Storm in a terminal. A key part of this is to determine how to invoke Storm based on how it was installed on your system. As such, this part is a key prerequisite for the following parts of this section.

- Using the Top Loop

  This page describes how the interactive top-loop in Storm works. It allows you to write and evaluate simple expressions and is a good way to experiment with the system.

- Getting Help

  This page describes how the built-in help system can be used in the top-loop. The help system gives access to the detailed documentation that is built into Storm. It acts as a complement to this manual.

- Running External Code

  This page describes how to load and execute larger programs, saved in files on disk. This is useful for launching your own programs, programs that are distributed separately from Storm itself, or when developing programs in Storm.