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/*!

    \page how-to-learn-qt.html

    \title How to Learn Qt

    \brief Links to guides and resources for learning Qt.

    \nextpage Tutorials

    \section1 Getting Started

    We assume that you already know C++ and will be using it for Qt

    development. See the \l{Qt website} for more information about

    using other programming languages with Qt.

    If you want to program purely in C++, designing your interfaces

    in code without the aid of any design tools, take a look at the

    \l{Tutorials}. These are designed to get you into Qt programming,

    with an emphasis on working code rather than being a tour of features.

    If you want to design your user interfaces using a design tool, then

    read at least the first few chapters of the \l{Qt Designer manual}.

    By now you'll have produced some small working applications and have a

    broad feel for Qt programming. You could start work on your own

    projects straight away, but we recommend reading a couple of key

    overviews to deepen your understanding of Qt: \l{Qt Object Model}

    and \l{Signals and Slots}.

    \beginfloatleft

    \inlineimage qtdemo-small.png

    \endfloat

    \section1 Getting an Overview

    At this point, we recommend looking at the

    \l{All Overviews and HOWTOs}{overviews} and reading those that are

    relevant to your projects. You may also find it useful to browse the

    source code of the \l{Qt Examples}{examples} that have things in

    common with your projects. You can also read Qt's source code since

    this is supplied.

    If you run the \l{Examples and Demos Launcher}, you'll see many of Qt's

    widgets in action.

    The \l{Qt Widget Gallery} also provides overviews of selected Qt

    widgets in each of the styles used on various supported platforms.

    \clearfloat

    \section1 Books and Learning Materials

    Qt comes with extensive documentation, with hypertext

    cross-references throughout, so you can easily click your way to

    whatever interests you. The part of the documentation that you'll

    probably use the most is the \link index.html API

    Reference\endlink. Each link provides a different way of

    navigating the API Reference; try them all to see which work best

    for you. You might also like to try \l{Qt Assistant}:

    this tool is supplied with Qt and provides access to the entire

    Qt API, and it provides a full text search facility.

    There are also a growing number of books about Qt programming.

    We recommend the official Qt book,

    \l{http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0132354160/ref=ase_trolltech/}{C++

    GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition} (ISBN 0-13-235416-0). This book

    provides comprehensive coverage of Qt programming all the way

    from "Hello Qt" to advanced features such as multithreading, 2D and

    3D graphics, networking, item view classes, and XML. (The first edition,

    which is based on Qt 4.1, is available

    \l{http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip}{online}.)

    See \l{Books about Qt Programming} for a complete list of Qt books,

    including translations to various languages.

    Another valuable source of example code and explanations of Qt

    features is the archive of articles from \l{Qt Quarterly}, a quarterly newsletter for users of Qt.

    For documentation on specific Qt modules and other guides, refer to

    \l{All Overviews and HOWTOs}.

    \section1 Further Reading

    Qt has an active and helpful user community who communicate using

    the \l{Qt Mailing Lists}{qt-interest} mailing list, the \l{Qt Centre}

    Web site, and a number of other community Web sites and Weblogs.

    In addition, many Qt developers are active members of the

    \l{KDE}{KDE community}.

    Good luck, and have fun!

*/