# Getting Started

This part of the manual aims to help new users of Storm getting started with the system. As such, it is structured like a tutorial that walks through the steps required to do various tasks in the system. The subsections of this part of the manual are roughly ordered according to complexity. The first subsections start by describing how to install Storm, run the bundled programs, and run small own programs. It then successively builds up to the last parts that cover how simple language extensions and whole languages can be built.

Below is an overview of the different subsections:

- Installing Storm

  Describes how Storm is installed on various systems.

- Running Storm

  Describes basic usage of Storm once it is installed. For example, how to launch the included programs, how to setup your system to run Storm conveniently from the command line, and how to launch custom programs conveniently.

- Developing in Storm

  This subsection focuses on developing software. As such, it covers topics like setting up Storm with an editor to conveniently edit source code. It also covers how to compile Storm from source, which allows developing Storm itself further, and to integrate additional libraries in other languages.

- Tutorials

  The final subsection contains a set of tutorials aimed to help new users getting started with various parts of Storm. While there are some basic tutorials, the tutorials are not aimed at teaching programming in general. Rather, the tutorials are focused on the more unique aspects of Storm, such as how to write grammars, use the grammars to write languages, interacting with the name tree, and so on.