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The goal of Switchback 1 is to create a very simple web page. In doing this, you will see beginning examples of three computer languages important for the web:

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• JavaScript (JS)

You can make web pages with just HTML, but nowadays it is much more common for web pages to include CSS and JS along with the HTML. In the spirit of a real switchback trail that goes back and forth across a mountain, in this course we will take a few steps toward learning each major web language, and then move sideways to take a few steps on the next one. Each lesson adds just a little, so you should never feel overwhelmed! As the final stop in this first switchback, we’ll also show you how to get a free Amazon Web Services (AWS) student account. This will be useful later for hosting your web pages.