# Introduction

### Welcome to the Pact Developer Tutorials <a href="#welcome-to-the-pact-developer-tutorials" id="welcome-to-the-pact-developer-tutorials"></a>

### What is Pact?[​](https://docs.kadena.io/learn-pact/intro#what-is-pact) <a href="#what-is-pact" id="what-is-pact"></a>

Pact is a human-readable smart contract language.

It allows anyone to write clearly, directly and safely onto a blockchain — a true innovation for secure and simple smart contract development. Pact will enable you to create entirely new business models and on-chain services.

### How to use the Pact Developer Tutorials[​](https://docs.kadena.io/learn-pact/intro#how-to-use-the-pact-developer-tutorials) <a href="#how-to-use-the-pact-developer-tutorials" id="how-to-use-the-pact-developer-tutorials"></a>

Pact Developer Tutorials offer the training needed to learn the Pact programming language. They teach skills from beginner to advanced that are designed to help you develop blockchain applications with Pact.

### Prerequisites[​](https://docs.kadena.io/learn-pact/intro#prerequisites) <a href="#prerequisites" id="prerequisites"></a>

These free tutorials have no prerequisites. Learn whenever and however you want using the documentation and complimentary videos for each lesson.

### Get Started[​](https://docs.kadena.io/learn-pact/intro#get-started) <a href="#get-started" id="get-started"></a>

Start with our [Beginner Tutorial Series](https://docs.kadena.io/learn-pact/beginner/welcome-to-pact) which covers Pact’s fundamental concepts, followed by real smart contract projects you can deploy to our Testnet.

### Connect with our community[​](https://docs.kadena.io/learn-pact/intro#connect-with-our-community) <a href="#connect-with-our-community" id="connect-with-our-community"></a>

* Join the [Discord Channel](https://discord.gg/Z2fq23YJgg) for community discussion
* Follow the [Pact GitHub](https://github.com/kadena-io/pact) page for the latest updates on Pact development
* Ask questions about Pact on Stack Overflow using [#pact-lang](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=pact-lang)
* Get the latest Kadena updates from our [Newsletter](https://kadena.io/subscribe/) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/kadena_io)
