.. default-domain:: cpp

The following articles demonstrate installation, use, and a basic understanding of Arrow. These articles will get you setup quickly using Arrow and give you a taste of what the library is capable of. Specifically, it contains: an installation and linking guide; documentation of conventions used in the codebase and suggested for users; and tutorials, including:

• Building Arrow arrays and tabular structures
• Reading and writing Parquet, Arrow, and CSV files
• Executing compute kernels on arrays
• Reading and writing multi-file partitioned datasets

Start here to gain a basic understanding of Arrow, and move on to the :doc:`/cpp/user_guide` to explore more specific topics and underlying concepts, or the :doc:`/cpp/api` to explore Arrow's API.

.. toctree::

   build_system
   conventions
   tutorials/basic_arrow.rst
   tutorials/io_tutorial.rst
   tutorials/compute_tutorial.rst
   tutorials/datasets_tutorial.rst