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--- user_guide:intro_tutorial [2019/02/05 15:41] – cleaned up a bit. oroehrig
+++ user_guide:intro_tutorial [2019/03/07 10:34] (current) – kalmar
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-====== Introduction to polymake ======
+====== First steps with polymake ======
 ====Installation====
 To get your copy of polymake, visit the [[:download:start|downloads page]]. For installation instructions, see the [[install:install|installation instructions]].
 ====Getting started====
-Onc eyou have polymake installed, fire it up by entering ''polymake'' on the command line. You should be presented with a greeting, followed by an input prompt which looks like this:
+Once you have polymake installed, fire it up by entering ''polymake'' on the command line. You should be presented with a greeting, followed by an input prompt which looks like this:
 <code>
 polytope >
 </code>
-After the prompt you can enter an enriched form of perl code. See [[user_guide:perl_intro|the polymake-perl introduction]] for more info. Various code examples performing tasks of different complexity can be found in the [[.start#tutorials|tutorials]].
+After the prompt you can enter an enriched form of perl code. You will probably want to look at some of the various code examples performing tasks of different complexity that can be found in the [[.start#tutorials|tutorials]]. Also see [[user_guide:tutorials:perl_intro|the polymake-perl introduction]] for more info.
 To get helpful tips on things you can do in the shell, visit the [[.shell|interactive shell wiki page]].
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 </code>
-There are [[user_guide:start#application_tutorials|introductory tutorials]] for all applications. Also check out the [[:release_docs:3.0|documentation]].
+There are [[user_guide:start#application_tutorials|introductory tutorials]] for all applications. Also check out the [[reldocs>latest|documentation]].
 ====Getting help====
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 If you type part of an expresison in the shell, you can hit ''TAB'' to display possible ways of completing it. For example, to see what methods you can invoke on the graph of the 3-cube, enter the following and hit ''TAB'':
 <code>
- polytope > cube(3)->GRAPH->                              # hit TAB!
+ polytope > $c = cube(3);
+ polytope > $c->GRAPH->                              # hit TAB!
 add                               disable_rules                     MAX_CLIQUES                       set_as_default
 ADJACENCY                         dont_save                         name                              set_as_default_now
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