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# Congratulations!

You've successfully finished our __Introduction to the CDK__ workshop!

In this workshop, you've learned how to:

- Create a new CDK project in TypeScript using `cdk init`
- Add resources to your CDK application stack
- Use `cdk diff` and `cdk deploy` to deploy your app to an AWS environment
- Author and use your own custom construct (`HitCounter`)
- Consume a construct from another npm module (`cdk-dynamo-table-viewer`)
- Use the AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB AWS construct libraries

## What's next?

The AWS CDK is a work in progress. It is currently in Developer Preview. We'd
love to hear what you think about every aspect of the framework.

Here are a few things you can do from here:

* __Build something__: build something real with the CDK and let us know how it
  went. What worked? What was intuitive? What was completely misleading?
* __Publish construct libraries__: start thinking about infrastructure in terms
  of small reusable modules instead of monolithic templates. Pick up a useful
  thing you've built and try to design a beautiful API for it. Share it with the
  community and let us know about it. We'll be curating a list of constructs,
  and would love to list yours.
* Create a simple app in the [Hello World Tutorial](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/CDK/latest/userguide/hello_world_tutorial.html)
  with the CDK in one of the supported languages: Java, .NET, JavaScript and TypeScript
* Dive deeper into [CDK
  Concepts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/core_concepts.html):
  [Constructs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/CDK/latest/userguide/constructs.html),
  [Apps](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/CDK/latest/userguide/apps.html) and [Stacks](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/CDK/latest/userguide/stacks.html),
  [Logical IDs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/identifiers.html#identifiers_logical_ids),
  [Environments](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/apps_and_stacks.html#environments),
  [Contexts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/context.html),
  and [Assets](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/CDK/latest/userguide/assets.html)
* Explore the [AWS Construct
  Library](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/CDK/latest/userguide/aws_construct_lib.html) and the
  [reference documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-construct-library.html)
  which already contains constructs for many AWS resources such as
  [EC2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-ec2-readme.html),
  [AutoScaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-autoscaling-readme.html),
  [S3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-s3-readme.html),
  [SNS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-sns-readme.html),
  [SQS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-sqs-readme.html),
  [CodePipeline](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-codepipeline-readme.html),
  [Step Functions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-stepfunctions-readme.html)
  and many more...
* Read guidelines on how to [write your own
  constructs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/CDK/latest/userguide/writing_constructs.html)
* Learn about [__jsii__](https://github.com/awslabs/jsii), the technology
  behind the CDK's multi-language support
* Browse some [examples](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples) on our GitHub repository

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* Join the conversation on our [Gitter channel](https://gitter.im/awslabs/aws-cdk)
* Ask questions on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws-cdk)
* Raise [an issue](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk/issues/new) on GitHub
* Learn how to submit
  [contributions](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
  to the project.

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___Thank you!___<br/>
The AWS CDK Team
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