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Our lesson template is kept in the `swcarpentry/styles` repository. The `styles` repository is carefully curated so that 
changes made to it are easily mergable by downstream lessons. The `styles` repository contains various 
bits that take Markdown files and render them as a lesson web page. For more information on how to develop 
lessons and maintain them, see our [lesson-example](lesson-example). It will walk you through the basics of lesson 
design and how to use GitHub, Markdown and Jekyll for lesson development. Follow the instructions below to make
your own empty lesson in your own GitHub account. Once you've done that you can just write Markdown code and have 
lesson web pages just like the [lesson-example](lesson-example) and all of our other lessons.

Requirements:
* A GitHub account
* A working python environment to run the lesson initialization script
* (Optional) A local install of [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) which will require the Ruby language to be installed

## Creating a New Lesson

We will assume that your user ID is `timtomch` and the name of your