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README.md

@@ -14,21 +14,29 @@ This repo contains the source code for the **COVID Volunteer and Plasma Donor**
 
 You need to have [_python_](https://www.python.org/) as well as _pip_ installed in your system to run this project. [_MariaDB_](https://mariadb.org/) also need to be explicitly installed and configured as per your convinience. You can also install [XAMPP](https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html), which comes with [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/) and [PHPMyAdmin](https://www.phpmyadmin.net/), if you do not like to tinker much with your system.
 
-To install python dependencies, follow the following steps. _Note: The following instructions assumed you have **Python 3** for the `python` command._
+To install python dependencies, follow the following steps.
+
+_Note: The following instructions assumed you have **Python 3** for the `python` command._
 
 **Create a virtual environment**
 
-`python -m venv .venv`
+```sh
+python -m venv .venv
+```
 
 **Activate the environment**
 
 Assuming you are using _bash_ or _zsh_
 
-`source .venv/bin/activate`
+```sh
+source .venv/bin/activate
+```
 
 **Install python dependencies**
 
-`pip install -r requirements.txt`
+```sh
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
 
 ### Create a Database
 
@@ -48,14 +56,18 @@ The database field above is the name of the database you just created, and user
 
 To migrate the necessary changes to the newly created database run the following command.
 
-`./manage.py migrate`
+```sh
+./manage.py migrate
+```
 
 NOTE: This only propagates the changes to the database schema to your newly created database. It doesn't add any data entries to the database. For a sample of data entries please contact the team.
 
 ### First Time setup
 During the first time setup, the **admin user** should be created from the python shell. So in order to create an admin user, run the following command from the project root directory.
 
-`./manage.py shell`
+```sh
+./manage.py shell
+```
 
 This opens an interactive python shell. In the python shell, enter the following line by line.
 
@@ -90,6 +102,8 @@ Now an admin user with username `admin` and password `admin` is created. You can
 
 Now the schema of various tables are setup in your newly created database. You can now run the database server using the following command.
 
-`./manage.py runserver`
+```sh
+./manage.py runserver
+```
 
 This will run a development server in localhost on port 8000. The development server will not be accessible on the LAN just now.