# Launching the IDE

Here's what you will see when opening AppGameKit for the first time.

The editor or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is used to write your programs. It is comprised of several parts.

- File menu
- Toolbar
- Sidebar
- Message window

For now we're just going to focus on what is needed for creating your first project, and as we move through the process you will get a better understanding of how the IDE works. The aim of the project is to simply print some text on screen.