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 The tutorial introduces the AmbientTalk programming language from its basic building blocks (functions, objects, messages) up to its advanced distribution model (remote objects, discovery, failure handling). The tutorial is not a comprehensive reference manual that tries to give the precise semantics of all of AmbientTalk's language features. Rather, it tries to give the reader hands-on experience in using the main features of the language in an example-driven manner.
-The tutorial is subdivided into different chapters that each highlight different aspects of the language. Sometimes the cohesion within one chapter is very high. For example, the chapter on object-oriented programming gives an overview of a number of language features that are all related to one another. Sometimes, different sections of a chapter are not directly related (e.g. the chapter on modular programming).
+The tutorial is subdivided into different chapters that each highlight different aspects of the language. It is recommended to read through the tutorial sequentially, although this does not preclude a reader interested in concurrency and actors to read that chapter early on, and then get back to previous chapters when things are unclear.

Ambient-Oriented Programming