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+/*!
+\page how-to-learn-qt.html
+
+\title How to Learn Qt
+
+We assume that you already know C++!
+
+The best way to learn Qt is to read the official Qt book, <a
+href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131240722/trolltech/">
+C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 (ISBN 0-13-124072-2)</a>.
+\if defined(commercial)
+\footnote
+Some of the book's examples make use of modules that are only
+available in the Qt Enterprise Edition.
+\endfootnote
+\endif
+This book provides comprehensive coverage of Qt programming all the
+way from "Hello Qt" to advanced features like multithreading, 2D and
+3D graphics, networking, and XML.
+
+\l{http://www.trolltech.com/training/}{Qt and Qtopia training} is also
+available. This takes the form of open enrollment courses for the
+public and on-site training for you and your colleagues.
+
+If you can't get hold of the official book, or if you can't wait for
+it to arrive then here is our suggested learning programme.
+
+Read the \link http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/whitepaper.html
+Qt Whitepaper\endlink first. This provides an overview of Qt's
+facilities and has snippets of code which demonstrate the Qt approach
+to programming. It gives you the 'big picture'.
+
+If you want to program purely in C++, designing your interfaces in
+code without the aid of any design tools, read the tutorials. \link
+tutorial.html Tutorial #1\endlink is designed to get you into Qt
+programming, with the emphasis on working code rather than being a
+tour of features. \link tutorial2.html Tutorial #2\endlink presents a
+more realistic example, demonstrating how to code menus, toolbars,
+file loading and saving, dialogs, etc.
+
+If you want to design your user interfaces using a design tool, then
+read at least the first few chapters of the \link designer-manual.book
+Qt Designer manual\endlink. After this, it is still worthwhile trying
+the pure C++ Tutorials (\link tutorial.html Tutorial #1\endlink and
+\link tutorial2.html Tutorial #2\endlink) mentioned above.
+
+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: the \link
+object.html Qt Object Model \endlink and \link signalsandslots.html
+Signals and Slots\endlink. 
+
+At this point we recommend looking at the \link overviews-list.html
+overviews\endlink and reading those that are relevant to your
+projects. You may also find it useful to browse the source code of the
+\link examples.html examples\endlink that have things in common with
+your projects. You can also read Qt's source code since this is
+supplied. 
+
+If you run the \c demo application (in \c{$QTDIR/examples/demo})
+you'll see many of Qt's widgets in action.
+
+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 \link
+assistant.book Qt Assistant\endlink: 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 \link
+http://www.trolltech.com/developer/books.html Qt
+books\endlink.
+
+You should now be ready to ground-break: good luck, and have fun!
+
+*/