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Welcome to Spyder's Documentation
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Spyder is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts.
It features a unique combination of the advanced editing, analysis, debugging, and profiling functionality of a comprehensive development tool with the data exploration, interactive execution, deep inspection, and beautiful visualization capabilities of a scientific package.



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Where to go now?
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Spyder's documentation provides a variety of resources that will help you learn how to use the application and explore each one of its panes.
These include video tutorials, in-depth descriptions and how-to guides covering a wide range of needs and experience levels with Spyder.

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       If you are looking for a summary of its features and interface, check out the :doc:`quickstart`.
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       If you don't have Spyder installed and want to get started, follow the :doc:`/installation`.
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       If you are completely new to Spyder, watch our basic tutorial series, :doc:`videos/first-steps-with-spyder`.
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       If you are familiar with Spyder and want to explore the functionality of its panes in more detail, go to :doc:`panes/index`.
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       If you've run into a Spyder problem and need help solving it, take a look at our :doc:`troubleshooting guide<troubleshooting/first-steps>`.
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       If you have a question about Spyder, visit the :doc:`faq` section.



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Join our community
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Spyder is open source software, which means that is free for everyone to use and anyone can contribute to it.
We encourage everyone to become a part of our community and help develop Spyder!


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Looking to contribute your code?
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Spyder is written in the same Python language that you use it to develop, so its easy to get started contributing to it.
You can follow our `contributing guide`_ to set up a development environment, and you can get involved with the project through our `Github repository`_.
The easiest way to get started is helping us resolve items on our `issue tracker`_, either by fixing bugs in Spyder, or helping users troubleshoot their problems (which doesn't require writing any code).

.. _contributing guide: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

.. _Github repository: https://github.com/spyder-ide

.. _issue tracker: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues


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Want to help writing docs?
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We welcome your contributions of corrections, additions and enhancements to these docs.
Check out the `docs contributing guide`_ to learn how to submit a PR with your changes on our `docs repo`_.

.. _docs contributing guide: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

.. _docs repo: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-docs


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Interested in translating Spyder?
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In order to reach more users around the world in need of a powerful scientific Python environment, we welcome your help translating the documentation and the interface into different languages.

For this purpose we use `Crowdin`_, which provides a simple web based interface for translators, proofreaders and managers, so everyone can help us translate Spyder into any language.

.. _Crowdin: https://crowdin.com/project/spyder


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Want to be part of our social media?
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Connect with Spyder through our social media channels to stay up to date with our current developments!



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    Welcome<self>
    quickstart
    installation
    videos/index
    panes/index
    plugins/index
    troubleshooting/index
    workshops/index
    FAQ<faq>