From 264aa79494245654bdb15fdfda4c986599e2bf3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jennifer Stubbs <52942431+jas58@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:12:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] per #529

I am starting an edit to anchor the discussion.  I spent an hour trying to find where I was, where python was, where the notebook was, and extracting the zip.  This is not at all explicit nor intuitive.  Is this an instructor note (explaining students or workshop may have skipped Shell and Git lessons)?  Or additional steps to encode as code boxes?
---
 episodes/00-before-we-start.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/episodes/00-before-we-start.md b/episodes/00-before-we-start.md
index 0224f02a3..eadca3760 100644
--- a/episodes/00-before-we-start.md
+++ b/episodes/00-before-we-start.md
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ the backbone of your project's directory. For this workshop, we will need a `dat
 our raw data, and we will later create a `data_output/` folder when we learn how to export data as
 CSV files.
 
+Let's take a moment to locate, create, and populate those before proceeding.
+
 ## What is Programming and Coding?
 
 Programming is the process of writing *"programs"* that a computer can execute and produce some