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title: Launch and navigate the IDE
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Launching the web GUI is as easy as pasting the provided link into your browser and logging in.

You'll land in the Code Studio and be prompted to connect.

![The New Console Connection screen](../assets/quickstart/new_console_connection.png)

Choose the Query Server on which to run this worker, the Heap Size (in GB) needed to provision the pending work, the Engine (Core+ or Legacy), and your preferred scripting language (Groovy or Python).

If you've used our system before, your tabs from the previous session will persist. If this is your first time on the system, you'll be greeted with a blank slate.

![A new, empty Code Studio](../assets/quickstart/blank_slate.png)

1. <font color="#FF40FF">New</font>

To open a dashboard or manage applications, select the [**New+**](../interfaces/web/new.md) tab.

2. <font color="#FF2501">Code Studio</font>

   If you are a developer and want to explore data, use the [Code Studio](../interfaces/web/code-studio.md).

3. <font color="#FF9302">Controls</font>

   The [**Controls**](../interfaces/web/controls.md) menu provides access to several filtering tools as well the [Markdown Widget](../interfaces/web/controls.md#markdown-widget).

4. <font color="#09F900">Panels</font>

   From the [**Panels**](../interfaces/web/panels.md) menu, you can open applications (known as Persistent Queries in Deephaven) to populate your dashboard.

5. <font color="#0BFDFF">Sharing</font>

   Through the [**Sharing**](../interfaces/web/sharing.md) dialog you can invite others to view or collaborate on your dashboard.

6. <font color="#2244FF">Settings</font>

   Use [**Settings**](../interfaces/web/settings.md) to configure formatting, keyboard shortcuts, and to access support.

## Next steps

Continue with the Crash Course to learn how to import data, develop queries, create dashboards by hand or with deephaven.ui, and develop client queries.

- [Data in](./data-in/batch-csv.md) <!--TODO: replace with overview -->
- [Develop a query](./develop-query/deephaven-ide.md)
- [Create a dashboard](./create-dashboard/by-hand.md)
- [Develop a client query](./develop-client-query/develop-python-query.md)