# Learn Dapr: Docs, Quickstarts, and Dapr University

You can learn Dapr from the Dapr docs and quickstarts, free Dapr University courses, and videos on the Dapr YouTube channel.

### Concepts

Learn the core concepts of Dapr through the Dapr docs. Learn about the Dapr runtime, the building block APIs, components, and cross-cutting concerns that Dapr provides out of the box.

[Learn the Dapr Concepts](https://docs.dapr.io/concepts/)

### Getting Started

Use the _Getting Started_ guide in the docs to install Dapr locally and interact with the Dapr sidecar using the State Management API.

[Get started with Dapr](https://docs.dapr.io/getting-started/)

### Quickstarts

Try the different building block APIs by running Dapr applications locally. The Quickstarts are available in multiple languages including .NET, Java, Python, JavaScript, and Go.

[Try the Dapr Quickstarts](https://docs.dapr.io/getting-started/quickstarts/)

### Dapr Dev Dashboard

Inspect what Dapr is doing on your machine while you build. The Dapr Dev Dashboard gives you a live view of your running applications, sidecars, components, and workflow executions, plus guided builders for authoring component files and resiliency policies. It is free to use and maintained by Diagrid.

[Try the Dapr Dev Dashboard](https://docs.diagrid.io/dapr-open-source/dapr-dev-dashboard/)

### Dapr University

Learn Dapr through Dapr University, a free, self-paced learning program that provides hands-on courses to learn Dapr. It uses a cloud-based sandbox environment, so it requires no local setup, you only need a browser. Dapr University is community sponsored by Diagrid.

[Try the Dapr University courses](https://www.diagrid.io/dapr-university)

### Dapr YouTube channel

Discover use cases, conference presentations and our regular community meetings on the Dapr YouTube channel.

[Explore Dapr on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/daprdev)