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ProtoCollum Quick Start Guide (v0.1)

The purpose of this Quick Start Guide is to get the user up and running with ProtoCollum as quickly as possible. After showing how to download and install the tool, we take the user through the creation, exercising, and further development of a sample protocol.

We introduce the capabilities and operation of ProtoCollum by means of a simple example that gets progressively more complex through a series of enhancements. As in the real-world, this design starts with a high-level, introductory description that covers the main points. The enhancements either more precisely define existing operations or add additional operations (or a mixture of both).

To avoid any conceptual difficulties with the application area itself, we use an interaction that should be familiar to all: the use of an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). Since the operation of an ATM is already well-known, we can instead concentrate on how to use ProtoCollum.