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 Check it Out
 ============
 
-Open a MSYS2 MINGW32 terminal window by running ``C:\msys32\mingw32.exe``. The environment in this window is a bash shell. 
+Open a MSYS2 MINGW32 terminal window by running ``C:\msys32\mingw32.exe``. The environment in this window is a bash shell. Create a directory named ``esp`` that is a default location to develop ESP32 applications. To do so, run the following shell command::
+
+    mkdir -p ~/esp
+
+By typing ``cd ~/esp`` you can then move to the newly created directory. If there are no error messages you are done with this step.
 
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