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**What you'll learn**

Through this tutorial, you'll learn to:

- Create an API proxy.
- Change your proxy's target endpoint.
- Add a policy to your proxy.

**What you'll need**

- [curl](https://curl.haxx.se/) installed on your machine to make API calls from the command line.

To build and deploy your first API proxy:

1. **[Create an Apigee account](https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/get-started/create-account).** You have to do this before you can go any further. Or is it *farther*?
2. **[Create an API proxy](https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/get-started/create-proxy)** using the Edge management UI. You'll connect your proxy to a mock endpoint so you can see how it works.
3. **[Test your new proxy](https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/get-started/test-proxy)** to make sure you're on track.
4. **[Change your target endpoint](https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/get-started/change-endpoint)** so your policy has more interesting data to play with.
5. **[Add a policy](https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/get-started/add-policy)** to convert the response from XML to JSON. Policies are at the heart of your proxy's request-response flow.