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title: 'First Steps with Spark - Screencast #1'
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This screencast marks the beginning of a series of hands-on screencasts we will be publishing to help new users get up and running in minutes. In this screencast, we:
<ol>
  <li>Download and build Spark on a local machine (running OS X, but should be a similar process for Linux or Unix).</li>
  <li>Introduce the API using the Spark interactive shell to explore a file.</li>
</ol>

<div class="video-container video-square shadow"><iframe width="755" height="705" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bWorBGOFBWY?autohide=0&showinfo=0&list=PL-x35fyliRwhKT-NpTKprPW1bkbdDcTTW" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

Check out the next spark screencast in the series, <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/screencasts/2-spark-documentation-overview.html">Spark Screencast #2 - Overview of Spark Documentation</a>.

For more information and links to other Spark screencasts, check out the <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation.html">Spark documentation page</a>.