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title: Tutorials
description: Learning-oriented walkthroughs for rtb-chat, starting from an empty Cargo project.
tags: [tutorials]
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# Tutorials
Start here if you have not used `rtb-chat` before. Each tutorial goes from nothing
to something working, and says what it will cost you in time before you start.
| [Your first chat call](01-your-first-chat-call.md) | A small program that asks a model a question, streams the answer, and gets a typed value back, tested without a network. | About 30 minutes |
Once something works, the [how-to guides](../how-to/index.md) cover single tasks
and the [reference](../reference/index.md) covers exact behaviour.