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								  The Developer Guide is a practical guide to Angular for experienced programmers who
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								  are building client applications in HTML and JavaScript.
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								  We are on a journey together to understand how Angular works and, more importantly,
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								  how to make it work for us.  This chapter begins the journey.
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								  # How to Read this Guide
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								  The guide consists of chapters devoted to the challenges of building an application and 
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								  meeting those challenges with Angular.
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								  ## Learning Path
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								  We don't have to read the guide straight through.  Most chapters stand on their own. 
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								  There is a learning path for those of us who are new to Angular.
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								  1. Read the [Architecture Overview](architecture.html) to get the big picture.
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								  1. Step *outside* the guide and try the [QuickStart](../quickstart.html). The QuickStart is the "Hello, World" of Angular 2. 
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								  It shows us how to setup the libraries and tools we'll need to write *any* Angular app. 
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								  1. Follow the [Tutorial](../tutorial). The "Tour of Heroes" tutorial takes us step-by-step from where QuickStart leaves off 
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								  Simple, yes, but with the essential characteristics we'd expect of a professional application:
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								  a sensible project structure, data binding, master/detail, services, dependency injection, navigation, and remote data access. 
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								    Return to the developers guide.
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								  1. [Displaying Data](displaying-data.html) explains how to get information on to the screen.
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								  1. [User Input](user-input.html) covers the basics of responding to user behavior.
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								  1. [Template Syntax](template-syntax.html) is a comprehensive study of Angular template HTML. 
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								  With this foundation, we can read and understand any chapter in the guide.
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								  ## Code Samples
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								  ## Other Resources
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								  ## Feedback
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								  We welcome feedback! Leave a comment by clicking the icon in upper right corner of the banner.
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								  Post issues with *Angular 2 itself* to the [angular](https://github.com/angular/angular) github repository.
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