This tutorial attempts to teach Felix from the ground up. It is aimed at people who know some computer science and are familiar with C++.

We try hard to introduce tutorial text that depends only on knowledge of the Felix language introduced in previous sections, however this is not always possible because of the integrated nature of programming systems.

Because of this ordering constraint, we end up covering many topics briefly, then eventually in more detail, so we can write more and more sophisticated programs. Unfortunately dependency ordering does not agree with covering topics in depth in logical categories.

So this tutorial text should be read in parallel with others, including the introduction of the abstract language, which focuses on semantics and tries to avoid precisely what this tutorial is all about: how the system is implemented.

This tutorial also does not cover the use of the Felix tool set, installation, or configuration.

The content of this tutorial is literate programmed with a simple format. A special tool is used to extract the code and expected results so that the code in the tutorial can be checked for correctness. This means the sample code on each page is a complete program (except when we link to library code).

As a result, the tutorial may not be entirely idea for reading, since it has to also present a complete program. I hope the reader excuses this understanding the verifying that the code is correct automatically is important too.