# Preface

This section provides a brief overview of the Spring Cloud Task reference documentation. Think of it as a map for the rest of the document. You can read this reference guide in a linear fashion or you can skip sections if something does not interest you.

## About the documentation

The Spring Cloud Task reference guide is available in {spring-cloud-task-docs}[html] and {spring-cloud-task-docs}/index.pdf[pdf], {spring-cloud-task-docs}/index.epub[epub] . The latest copy is available at {spring-cloud-task-docs-current}.

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## Getting help

Having trouble with Spring Cloud Task? We would like to help!

- Ask a question. We monitor stackoverflow.com for questions tagged with `spring-cloud-task`.

- Report bugs with Spring Cloud Task at https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-task/issues.

| All of Spring Cloud Task is open source, including the documentation. If you find a problem with the docs or if you just want to improve them, please get involved.

## First Steps

If you are just getting started with Spring Cloud Task or with 'Spring' in general, we suggesting reading the getting-started.html chapter.

To get started from scratch, read the following sections:

- Introducing Spring Cloud Task

- System Requirements

To follow the tutorial, read Developing Your First Spring Cloud Task Application
To run your example, read Running the Example