Recommended Onboarding Pacing Schedule

Day 1: Web 101 and Database Management Systems

• Read the Basics section: Basics
  • Web 101
  • Database Management

Day 2: Git + Getting Started with Repos and Vagrant Local Environment

• Follow instructions on the Comprehensive Setup [Please READ EVERYTHING FIRST before starting!!!!]: Comprehensive Setup (Forking, Cloning, and Dev Environment)
• Git guide: Git Guide

Day 3, 4, 5: Django Development Tutorials

• Django Development Tutorials: Django Development Tutorial
  • CompServ Candidates:
    • Skip the “Important Supplemental Materials” section, since these mostly will be used for CompServ Officers
• File System Layout: Layout

Day 6: Potpourri Topics - UI Design Decisions to Code [Optional, but good to know]

• Other Software Engineering Useful Topics

Day 7: CompServ Specific Logistics [Officers Only]

• Important
  • Contribution Procedure
  • Deployment
  • For Maintainers
• Good to know
  • Sysadmin
• If you haven’t looked at the “Important Supplemental Materials” section in the Django Development Tutorial, please do so

Other Good to Know Pages / Links:

• Supplemental Django Topics