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e.g. "templates" or "datastore"

# Introduction

Welcome to Google App Engine! Creating an App Engine application is easy, and only takes a few minutes. And it's free to start: upload your app and share it with users right away, at no charge and no commitment required.

In this tutorial, you will create a simple guest book application that lets users post messages to a public message board. Users can post anonymously, or using their Google accounts.

The guest book application will demonstrate how to use the App Engine datastore, how to integrate an App Engine application with Google Accounts, and how to use a simple Python web framework included with App Engine called webapp. The app will also demonstrate how to use the Django template engine.

## Next...

To get started developing Google App Engine applications, you will first download and set up the App Engine software development kit.

Continue to The Development Environment.