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Step 1 of tutorial 1 is broken, that seemed to me to be beyond unprofessional.
Now I learn this has been a known issue for FOUR YEARS?!
Should I be worried that this company has just stopped trying?
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DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...
The bad news is that the "Getting Started Tutorial" found in Quartus is not intended to be something you actually follow along with at home, and has remained this way for many years. It just introduces you to the GUI elements and some of the process flow. Arguably, if you need to be walked through a GUI by the hand with "click here, then click there" video and then quizzed on the subject afterwards, you should ask yourself whether FPGA development is really for you.
The good news is that Altera has a pretty good tutorial called "My First FPGA" found in
http://www.altera.com/literature/tt/tt_my_first_fpga.pdf that really is something you can follow along with at home. Other tutorials can be found via the Altera literature index, or in the quartus\common\help folder as PDF files.
I know that this threat has been dormant for a while, but hopefully this answer clears things up a little as the issue is still present as of v13.1.
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