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Getting Started
===============

The following articles demonstrate installation, use, and a basic understanding of Arrow.
These articles will get you setup quickly using Arrow and give you a taste of what the
library is capable of.
Specifically, it contains: an installation and linking guide; documentation of conventions used
in the codebase and suggested for users; and tutorials, including:

* Building Arrow arrays and tabular structures
* Reading and writing Parquet, Arrow, and CSV files
* Executing compute kernels on arrays
* Reading and writing multi-file partitioned datasets

Start here to gain a basic understanding of Arrow, and move on to the :doc:`/cpp/user_guide` to
explore more specific topics and underlying concepts, or the :doc:`/cpp/api` to explore Arrow's
API.

.. toctree::

   build_system
   conventions
   tutorials/basic_arrow.rst
   tutorials/io_tutorial.rst
   tutorials/compute_tutorial.rst
   tutorials/datasets_tutorial.rst