Get Started with Looker
- Looker’s Different Sections
- Personalizing Looker
  - Your User Account
- Keyboard Shortcuts
  - Keyboard Shortcuts in Looker
- Video Tutorials

Latest Features
- Updates for General Users
  - What’s New for Browsing and Exploring
- Full Release Notes

Find and Organize Content
- Finding and Viewing Content
- Organizing Content
  - Organizing with Spaces
- For Developers and Admins
  - Deleted and Unused Content for Admins

Send and Share Content
- Send and Share Content

Retrieve and Chart Data

Create Dashboards and Reports
- Creating Saved Reports (Looks)
  - Saving and Editing Looks
- Creating User-Defined Dashboards
- Creating and Managing LookML Dashboards

Get Ready for Development
- Development Process
- SQL in Looker
  - How Looker Generates SQL
  - Using SQL Runner
- Setting Up a Project
- Setting Up a Database
  Connection

Write LookML
- Getting Started with LookML
  - Steps to Learning LookML
  - Video Tutorials
- Basic Concepts
- Advanced Concepts
- LookML Reference

Use Embedding and the API
- Looker API
- Embedding

Setup and Administer Looker
- Getting Started with Setup and Admin
- Installation and Maintenance
- Setting Up a Database
  Connection
- Admin Tutorials
- Admin Panel Reference

Steps to Learning LookML

New to LookML development? Below is a list of resources to jump-start your learning.

1. Get Access to Looker’s Learning Environment

One of the best ways to learn Looker and LookML is to play in a safe environment with plenty of code examples to copy. Looker can provide you with an account on our learning environment, learn.looker.com. Contact support@looker.com for access.

2. Learn How to Use Looker to Query and Explore Data

Knowing how to explore data in Looker will help you a great deal when modeling your data in LookML. If you’re not familiar with using Looker to query, filter, and drill into data, we suggest the following:

Start with the Exploring Data tutorials. The links at the bottom of each page will guide you through a sequence of the most important Looker features.
These videos take you through the basics of exploring.

3. Review SQL Basics Before Diving Into LookML

Writing LookML requires an understanding of SQL queries. You don’t have to be a SQL guru, and even beginners can create powerful Looker models. But in general, the deeper you go in LookML, the more you benefit from a deeper knowledge of SQL.

If you need a SQL refresher, here are some of our favorite resources:

Khan Academy’s SQL Lessons interactive SQL tutorials
SQLzoo interactive SQL tutorials
Sam’s Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes book by Ben Forta

4. Learn LookML Fundamentals

The resources below will jump-start your LookML knowledge. Use your learning account to experiment with different design patterns.

Start with What is LookML? and LookML Terms and Concepts
Check out our LookML Functional Reference page
Continue to How Looker Generates SQL and Advanced LookML Concepts
Once you have a good grasp of LookML and SQL read about our more advanced features like Derived Tables and Templated Filters

After you’ve learned LookML basics, use these pages for details on each LookML parameter:

Model LookML	Go to Reference Page
Explore LookML	Go to Reference Page
Join LookML	Go to Reference Page
View LookML	Go to Reference Page
Field LookML	Go to Reference Page
Dashboard LookML	Go to Reference Page

5. Consider Looker Training

Looker offers several classes for business users, beginning Looker developers, and advanced Looker developers. Check out our training events page for more information.