diff --git a/.idea/.gitignore b/.idea/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..26d3352
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Default ignored files
+/shelf/
+/workspace.xml
diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5c6d9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_1_8" project-jdk-name="1.8" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK" />
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b4e4852..038d332 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 # A scratch repo on GitHub.com
+
+This is the first README file