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    1: \label{About_Developers_Manual}
    2: 
    3: The purpose of this document is to introduce developers people to
    4: LON-CAPA, and enable them to start doing real work with the system
    5: as quickly as possible. This should prove useful both to people who
    6: already intend to develop with LON-CAPA, and to technical people who
    7: are evaluating LON-CAPA to see if it suits their needs. 
    8: 
    9: The most daunting task facing new developers is understanding how
   10: the whole system fits together; individual pieces are usually sensible
   11: but like any large program it is difficult to understand the forest
   12: by looking at just the trees. Therefore, this document will start
   13: out with the highest-level overview of the system, which can be safely
   14: skipped if you already know what LON-CAPA is. 
   15: 
   16: Next, we'll look at the major subsystems of LON-CAPA and how they
   17: fit together at a high level, with enough detail to understand the
   18: context a given piece of the system functions in. Appropriate pointers
   19: will be given to the detailed documentation on the various subsystems,
   20: so this section can be used as an expanded {}``Table of Contents''.
   21: 
   22: Then a brief tutorial in adding a {}``handler'' to LON-CAPA will
   23: be given, enabling you both to understand how to add brand-new functionality
   24: to LON-CAPA, and better understand the majority of the code in the
   25: system which is in the form of handlers.
   26: 
   27: Finally, the last and largest portion of this document will be extremely
   28: detailed examinations of the subsystems from a technical point of
   29: view, including API descriptions suitable for use in programming.
   30: Obviously you will not need to read this over entirely, unless you
   31: really want to know what the system can do.
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