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+=================
+Tutorial Approach
+=================
+
+This tutorial uses conventions to keep the introduction focused and concise.
+Details, references, and deeper discussions are mentioned in "See also" notes.
+
+.. seealso:: This is an example "See also" note.
+
+This "Getting Started" tutorial is broken into independent steps, starting with
+the smallest possible "single file WSGI app" example. Each of these steps
+introduce a topic and a very small set of concepts via working code. The steps
+each correspond to a directory in this repo, where each step/topic/directory is
+a Python package.
+
+To successfully run each step:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ cd request_response
+    $ $VENV/bin/pip install -e .
+
+...and repeat for each step you would like to work on. In most cases we will
+start with the results of an earlier step.
+
+Directory tree
+==============
+
+As we develop our tutorial, our directory tree will resemble the structure
+below:
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+    quick_tutorial
+        ├── env
+        └── request_response
+            ├── tutorial
+            │   ├── __init__.py
+            │   ├── tests.py
+            │   └── views.py
+            ├── development.ini
+            └── setup.py
+
+Each of the first-level directories (e.g., ``request_response``) is a *Python
+project* (except as noted for the ``hello_world`` step). The ``tutorial``
+directory is a *Python package*. At the end of each step, we copy a previous
+directory into a new directory to use as a starting point.