.. _sec-tuto-start-introduction:

Introduction to the concepts of CP and IA
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| Welcome to this tutorial!
| This first page aims at giving you a first glimpse of the philosophy of this tutorial based on Codac.

.. include:: /manual/01-introduction/intro_constraint_programming.rst

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Getting started
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Now, to get ready for the tutorial, you need to install the Codac library on your computer.
Please follow the related page of the manual to see how to do it:

.. toctree:: 
  :maxdepth: 1

  /install/01-installation

Then, depending on your preference between C++ or Python, you can run some *Hello World!* program to be sure everything is working well:

.. toctree:: 
  :maxdepth: 1

  /install/02-start-py-project
  /install/03-start-cpp-project