# Lesson Title

For guidelines on how to develop curriculum content, please visit The Carpentries Curriculum Development Handbook.

This lesson shows how to use The Carpentries lesson template. The materials below assume familiarity with tools such as GitHub, Markdown, and Jekyll. For more guidance, please visit the Technological introductions section of The Carpentries Curriculum Development Handbook.

For guidelines on how to help improve our lessons and this template, please see the contribution guidelines; for guidelines on how to set up your machine to preview changes locally, please see the setup instructions.

> ## Prerequisites

> Use the `.prereq` style to specify prerequisites.

> ## Ten Things You Need To Know

> 1. Don’t panic.
> 2. Create a new lesson by using GitHub Import, not by forking.
> 3. Run `bin/lesson_initialize.py` once in a new lesson repository to set up standard files.
> 4. Run `make lesson-check` to check that the lesson is formatted correctly.
> 5. Put lesson episodes in `_episodes` (or `_episodes_rmd` if you are writing in RMarkdown).
> 6. Run `make serve` to preview the lesson website locally.
> 7. Do not commit the generated HTML files in the `_site` directory.
> 8. Style blocks and code samples by putting `{: .stylename}` on a newline after the block or code.
> 9. Put solutions inside challenges using nested blockquotes.
> 10. File issues and template fixes in the styles repository, and enhancements to this documentation in this one.

[workshop-repo]: [yaml]: http://yaml.org/

## Schedule

| Setup | Download files required for the lesson
00:00 | 1. GitHub, Markdown, and Jekyll | How are pages published?
00:10 | 2. Lesson Organization | How are the files in a lesson organized?
00:20 | 3. Formatting | How are The Carpentries lessons formatted?
00:30 | 4. Using RMarkdown | How to write a lesson using RMarkdown?
00:42 | 5. Style Guide | How are keyboard key combinations written?
00:52 | 6. Checking and Previewing | How can lesson formatting be checked? How can lessons be previewed?
00:57 | 7. Coffee Break | Break
01:12 | Finish |

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.