This tutorial will walk first-time Alexa skills developers through all the required steps involved in creating a skill using this hello world template, called ‘hello world’. This post assumes you have some familiarity with Python (or a similar programming language) and the Alexa Skills Kit. This tutorial provides an alternate way to build Alexa skills using python decorators. If you are interested in developing skills using classes, please look at the skill-sample-python-helloworld-classes sample.