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+Thrift Tutorial
+
+Author: Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com)
+
+Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license.
+Please see the included LICENSE file.
+
+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) Run tutorial.thrift to compile the code:
+
+     ./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.