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+Thrift Tutorial
+
+License
+=======
+
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+
+Tutorial
+========
+
+1) First things first, you'll need to install the Thrift compiler and the
+   language libraries. Do that using the instructions in the top level
+   README file.
+
+2) Read tutorial.thrift to learn about the syntax of a Thrift file
+
+3) Compile the code for the language of your choice:
+
+     $ thrift
+     $ thrift -r --gen cpp tutorial.thrift
+
+4) Take a look at the generated code.
+
+5) Look in the language directories for sample client/server code.
+
+6) That's about it for now. This tutorial is intentionally brief. It should be
+   just enough to get you started and ready to build your own project.