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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!
+*/