# Amazon Mechanical Turk Getting Started Guide
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**Important**  
This guide is deprecated. To get started using Mechanical Turk, we recommend you use the [Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMechanicalTurkRequester).

This is the *Amazon Mechanical Turk Getting Started Guide*. This guide provides a conceptual overview of Amazon Mechanical Turk for developers who want to write scripts or software applications using the Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester API. The major sections of this guide are described in the following table. For information on using a graphical user interface to access Amazon Mechanical Turk functionality, go to the [Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester User Interface Guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/RequesterUI/). 



Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web service that provides an on-demand, scalable, human workforce to complete jobs that humans can do better than computers, such as recognizing objects in photographs. For more information about this product, go to the Amazon Mechanical Turk [website](http://www.mturk.com). 

## How Do I...?
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|  How do I...? |  Relevant Topics  | 
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|  Get a general product overview of Mechanical Turk  |   [Introduction to Amazon Mechanical Turk](SvcIntro.md)   | 
|  Set up the accounts and tools needed to use Mechanical Turk  |   [Setting Up Accounts and Tools](SetUp.md)   | 
|  Use the Mechanical Turk SDKs to write and publish a Human Intelligence Task (HIT)  |   [Creating a HIT](CreatingAHIT.md)  | 
|  Learn more about implementing Mechanical Turk  |   [Implementing Amazon Mechanical Turk](NextSteps.md)  | 
|  Find answers to common questions about Mechanical Turk   |   [Amazon Mechanical Turk FAQ ](https://requester.mturk.com/help/faq/)  | 
|  Learn more about programmatically interacting with Mechanical Turk   |  [Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMechanicalTurkRequester/)  | 
|  Find detailed information about Mechanical Turk operations  |   [ Amazon Mechanical Turk API Reference](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI/)   |