> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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## Getting Started

<!-- llms-summary: A beginner's tutorial introducing graphs, vertices, edges, and basic Gremlin traversals to get started with Apache TinkerPop. -->

[Apache TinkerPop™](https://tinkerpop.apache.org) is an open source Graph Computing Framework. Within itself, TinkerPop
represents a large collection of capabilities and technologies and, in its wider ecosystem, an additionally extended
world of [third-party contributed](https://tinkerpop.apache.org/#graph-systems) graph libraries and
systems. TinkerPop&#8217;s ecosystem can appear complex to newcomers of all experience levels, especially when glancing at the
[reference documentation](https://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.7.7-SNAPSHOT/reference/) for the first time.

So, where do you get started with TinkerPop? How do you dive in quickly and get productive? Well &#8230;&#8203; Gremlin, the
most recognizable citizen of The TinkerPop, is here to help with this thirty-minute tutorial. That&#8217;s right: in just
thirty short minutes, you too can be fit to start building graph applications with TinkerPop. Welcome to _The
TinkerPop Workout — by Gremlin_!

![gremlin gym](../../images/gremlin-gym.png)