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Welcome to the lesson-template wiki! This is designed to be a resource for contributing to the maintenance of SLU DSS's lessons. Our approach to lessons has evolved over the past three years as we have grown as both teachers and R users. We have also begun integrating elements from other educators, including Data Carpentry.

Set-up

Before you get started, there are a number of tools you will need. Make sure you have a version of Git installed on your desktop. You may also want to have the GitHub Desktop app installed if you prefer a GUI to the command line. You will also need a text editor, since RStudio (which you will also need!) does not give you access to some hidden system files / directories. We recommend Atom for its ease of use and extensibility.

If you are developing for Python, you will also need the latest version of Python 3 installed along with Jupyter Notebooks.