readme update

Author: chrisweb

README.md

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 waveform-visualizer
 ===================
 
-Visualizes waveform data (peaks) that got generated using: https://github.com/chrisweb/waveform-data-generator
+Visualizes waveform data (peaks) that got generated using: https://github.com/chrisweb/waveform-data-generator
+
+Getting started
+---------------
+
+* First, start by installing nodejs (http://nodejs.org/) (which includes npm) to run bower
+* You will also have to install git (http://git-scm.com/download) which is a bower dependency
+* Do a local checkout of this project using git
+* Use your command line tool and go to the root of this project (type: cd /LOCAL_PROJECT_PATH)
+* Install bower (http://bower.io/) using npm, go the root of this project using your command line tool and then type: npm install -g bower
+* type: bower install, to install the required vendor packages (dependencies)