sass description

10. SASS/README.md

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 ## Lesson Objectives
 
+1. Describe what SASS is
 1. Install SASS
 1. Save values in variables
 1. Nest rules inside each other
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 1. Have rules inherit values
 1. Use Operators
 
+## Describe what SASS is
+
+SASS stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets.  It's a transpiler, much like Babel is for ES6.  It takes SASS syntax and turns it into CSS.  It basically adds additional functionality to CSS that isn't available by default.
+
 ## Install SASS
 
 You can install as a node package or a ruby gem.  Let's use node: