introduction

Now with the 3.2 release of MPS approaching, we've updated the introductory materials that aim at introducing newbies to MPS. Typical readers of this blog have probably got over the beginner stage, but many of you may still benefit from some of the materials or use the pointers listed here to help your friends and colleagues to start with MPS smoothly. Here are the most prominent updates: The Fast Track to MPS tutorial has been updated in many sections so it could be considered the best place to start learning MPS You may have seen the new What JetBrains MPS can do for you? video. If

Those, who would like to put their hands on MPS and make their first steps in language design under supervision of the MPS team members, have now an opportunity to join a free workshop organized by SkillsMatter in London on September 26th 2013. Alex Shatalin and Václav Pech will guide you through the various aspects on language definition so we can build several DSLs and language extensions and then integrate them into a Java project. If you're waiting for a good opportunity to get familiar with MPS, now is the time to act. Develop with pleasure! -JetBrains MPS Team

Most of the readers of this blog can ride MPS already. Newcomers, however, need guidance and help to overcome the initial barrier so that they could start using the tool and benefit from it. We're constantly trying to come up with ways that would improve the initial experience and just recently we published a short step-by-step tutorial - Fast Track to MPS - 9 steps to mastery. The tutorial aims at newbies and guides them to walk steadily from simple concepts towards the more involved ones so that they gradually build the necessary knowledge. If you know of anyone, who might be willing to giv