# start
The first step in developing a Mini Program is to have a Mini Program account, through which you can manage your Mini programs.
Follow this tutorial and start your Mini Program journey!
# Apply for Account
Get intoSmall Program Registration Page Fill in the information and submit the corresponding information according to the guidelines, you can have your own Mini Program account.
In this Mini Program management platform, you can manage your Mini Program permissions, view data reports, publish Mini programs and other operations.
log in Small Program Background , We Can In The Menu Development - Development Settings See the Mini Program. AppID 了 。
Mini Program. AppID It is equivalent to an ID card of the Mini Program platform, which you will use in many places in the future. AppID (Note that this is to be distinguished from the service number or subscription number of AppID)。
With a Mini Program account, we need a tool to develop a Mini Program.
# Install Development Tools
Go to [Developer Tools Download Page](https://developers.weixin.qq.com/miniprogram/dev/Devtools /download.html) , according to their own operating system to download the corresponding installation package for installation, the developer tools more detailed introduction can be viewed [Introduction to Developer Tools](https://developers.weixin.qq.com/miniprogram/dev/Devtools /Devtools .html) 。
Open the Mini Program Developer Tool, scan the QR code to login the Developer Tool with WeChat, and prepare to develop your first Mini Program!
# Your first little program
Select the new project Mini Program project, select the hard disk path stored in the code, fill in the Mini Program just applied for AppID. Give your project a nice name. Check the box "Not using cloud services" (Note: You have to select an empty directory to create a project), click New, you get your first Mini Program, click on the top menu to compile you can preview your first Mini Program in WeChat developer tools.
Next, let's preview the effect of this Mini Program.
# Compilation preview
Click the Compile button on the tool to see the performance of this Mini Program in the simulator interface on the left side of the tool, or click the Preview button to experience your first Mini Program on the phone with a scan of WeChat.
Through this chapter, you have successfully created your first mini program and experienced its smooth performance on the WeChat client.
Next Chapter, Let's take a look at the code composition of this Mini Program.