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PR-3: Add step-by-step instructions for the curious but unsavvy

Most of the original pull request (dated two years ago) was added to the
README.

See https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-starter/pull/3 for the original
pull request.


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-storm/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-storm/commit/b9c57eb9
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-storm/tree/b9c57eb9
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-storm/diff/b9c57eb9

Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: b9c57eb9ac20cbb44af0c4fd64c8de3f219bf3c3
Parents: f64b52a
Author: Michael G. Noll <mn...@verisign.com>
Authored: Thu Aug 29 11:57:25 2013 +0200
Committer: Michael G. Noll <mn...@verisign.com>
Committed: Thu Aug 29 11:57:25 2013 +0200

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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-storm/blob/b9c57eb9/README.markdown
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diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
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@@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ Table of Contents
 
 # Getting started
 
+## Prerequisites
+
+First, you need `java` and `git` installed and in your user's `PATH`.  Also, two of the examples in storm-starter
+require Python and Ruby.
+
+Next, make sure you have the storm-starter code available on your machine.  Git/GitHub beginners may want to use the
+following command to download the latest storm-starter code and change to the new directory that contains the downloaded
+code.
+
+    $ git clone git://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-starter.git && cd storm-starter
+
+
+## storm-starter overview
+
 storm-starter contains a variety of examples of using Storm.  If this is your first time working with Storm, check out
 these topologies first: