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This lesson shows how to use [Software Carpentry]({{ site.swc_site }})'s lesson template. Each lesson is made up of episodes that are 10-30 minutes long (including time for both teaching and exercises). The episodes of this lesson explain the tools we use to create lessons and the formatting rules those lessons must follow.
We call the parts of lessons "episodes" because every other term (like "topic") already has multiple meanings, and because it encourages us to think of breaking up our lessons into chunks that are about as long as a typical movie scene, which is better for learning than long blocks without interruption. {: .callout}
Every lesson's home page is contained in index.md,
and opens with a few pages.
After that come
a block stating prerequisites
and a line including syllabus.html
(which generates a summary of the lesson's episodes).
Use the
.prereqstyle to specify prerequisites. {: .prereq}