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<h2>Documentation</h2>
The manual for the Pencil Code is available <a href="/doc/manual.pdf" target="_blank">in PDF</a> (2.3M) or
 as <a href="/doc/manual.ps.gz">gzipped PostScript</a> (1.1M).

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<b><u>Hint:</u></b> We also have a <a href="/doc/quick_start.pdf" target="_blank">Quick Start guide</a> for beginners.
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<h2>Supplements</h2>
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Axel Brandenburg gave a general presentation on the Pencil code in Oslo (2003):
<i>The Pencil Code: multi-purpose and multi-user maintained.</i>
(<a href="http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/talks/misc/pencil-code2003.htm">html</a>, <a href="http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/talks/misc/pencil-code2003.ppt">PowerPoint</a>).
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Wlad Lyra has written a <a href="/doc/hello_disk.pdf" target="_blank">tutorial</a> for setting up
global accretion disk simulations.
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Boris Dintrans wrote a comprehensive introduction to Python and
<a href="http://userpages.irap.omp.eu/~bdintrans/docs/talks/talk_pcmeeting08_19aug08.pdf">postprocessing
with Python</a>.
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Wolfgang Dobler wrote
<a href="/doc/git-getting-started.pdf">Git Getting Started</a> (Jun 10, 2016) and
<a href="/doc/git-best-practises.pdf">Git Best Practises</a> guide (Jun 10, 2016).
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Matthias Rheinhardt presented a talk about the
<a href="/UserMeetings/2016/talks/YinYang_talk.pdf">Yin-Yang mesh</a> (10 Aug 2016)
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<h2>Tests and timings</h2>
For information how to do benchmark tests and timings, see the <a href="/timings.php">benchmark page</a>.
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<h2>Teaching</h2>
The code has been used
for teaching on a number of occasions. Some online material with
exercises is available through the
<a href="http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/teach/PencilCode/">Numerical Experiments</a> page.

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<h2>FAQ</h2>
For code problems, please check this automatically generated <a href="/doc/faq.php">excerpt from the manual with FAQs</a>.
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<h2>Wiki</h2>
Some helpful information are available on our <a href="https://github.com/pencil-code/pencil-code/wiki">project wiki</a>.
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