Do I need to build a custom page to list nodes by content type? Environment

Mac OSX 10.8.2
MAMP
Drupal 7 (just downloaded the stable today)

Objective
Create a menu item in the main menu to list recent and all nodes of a specific content type.
Question
It appears that I'm going to need to build a custom page, and leverage an API, to simply list nodes by content type. I just know I'm missing something. Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to do this?
I ran this Google searche, drupal 7 list nodes of content type, to come to the conclusion that I'm going to need to build some kind of custom code.
No need to build a custom page.  What you want to do is very simple to do with the Views module.

Just build a View to list nodes, and under Filter criteria, add a filter that only displays nodes of whatever content type you want to single out.