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+# gRPC Helloworld Tutorial
+
+A great way to get introduced to gRPC is to work through this tutorial, which
+walks you through the construction of simple client and server that introduces
+various features of gRPC.
+
+When you finish the tutorial, you will be able to
+
+- Create an protobuf schema that defines a simple RPC service
+- Create a Java server that implements the schema interface
+- Create a Java client that accesses the server
+- Create a Go client that accesses the Java server
+- Update the service with advanced features like RPC streaming
+
+# Get Started
+
+The rest of this page explains how you can set up your local machine for development.
+If you just want to read the tutorial, you can go straight to the next step: [Step - 0](Step_0.md)
+
+# Working with the code
+
+You can follow along with this tutorial and hack on the code in the comfort of
+your own computer. In this way you can get hands-on practice of really writing
+gRPC code.
+
+The tutorial relies on the use of the Git versioning system for source code
+management. You don't need to know anything about Git to follow the tutorial
+other than how to install and run a few git commands.
+
+# Install Git
+
+You can download and install Git from http://git-scm.com/download. Once
+installed you should have access to the git command line tool. The main
+commands that you will need to use are:
+
+- git clone ... : clone a remote repository onto your local machine
+- git checkout ... : check out a particular branch or a tagged version of the code to hack on
+
+# Download grpc-helloworld
+
+Clone the grpc-helloword repository located at GitHub by running the following command:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/google/grpc-helloworld.git
+```
+
+Change your current directory to grpc-helloworld
+
+```
+cd grpc-helloworld
+```
+
+# Install Java 8
+
+Java gRPC works on both Java 7 and Java 8. To keep this example simple, will
+assume that you've installed Java 8.  Instructions for
+[installing Java 8](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/install_overview.html)
+are available online.
+
+# Install Go 1.4
+
+Go gRPC requires Go 1.4.  It's available for [download](https://golang.org/dl/) and install online.
+
+# (optional) Install protoc
+
+gRPC uses the latest version of the protocol buffer compiler, protoc.
+
+For following this tutorial, the protoc is not strictly necessary, as all the
+generated code is checked into the Git repository.  If you want to experiment
+with generating the code yourself, download and install protoc from its
+[Git repo](https://github.com/google/protobuf)