<p>Further details are available in the <aclass="reference internal" href="users/installing/index.html"><spanclass="doc">Installation Guide</span></a>.</p>
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<h2>Learning resources<aclass="headerlink" href="#learning-resources" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
<pclass="sd-card-text">Understand how Matplotlib works</p>
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<li><pclass="sd-card-text">The <aclass="reference internal" href="users/explain/index.html#users-guide-explain"><spanclass="std std-ref">Explanations</span></a> in the <aclass="reference internal" href="users/index.html"><spanclass="doc">Users guide</span></a></p></li>
<li><pclass="sd-card-text">Many of the <aclass="reference internal" href="tutorials/intermediate/index.html#tutorials-intermediate"><spanclass="std std-ref">Intermediate</span></a> and
<aclass="reference internal" href="tutorials/advanced/index.html#tutorials-advanced"><spanclass="std std-ref">Advanced</span></a> tutorials have explanatory
<li><pclass="sd-card-text"><aclass="reference internal" href="api/axes_api.html"><spanclass="doc">Axes API</span></a> for most plotting methods</p></li>
<li><pclass="sd-card-text"><aclass="reference internal" href="api/figure_api.html"><spanclass="doc">Figure API</span></a> for figure-level methods</p></li>
<li><pclass="sd-card-text">Top-level interfaces to create:</p>
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<p>There are many <aclass="reference external" href="https://matplotlib.org/mpl-third-party/">Third-party packages</a> built on top of and extending
Matplotlib.</p>
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<h2>Contributing<aclass="headerlink" href="#contributing" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Matplotlib is a community project maintained for and by its users. There are many ways
you can help!</p>
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<li><p>Help other users <aclass="reference external" href="https://discourse.matplotlib.org">on discourse</a></p></li>
<li><p>report a bug or request a feature <aclass="reference external" href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues">on GitHub</a></p></li>
<li><p>or improve the <aclass="reference internal" href="devel/index.html#developers-guide-index"><spanclass="std std-ref">documentation and code</span></a></p></li>
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