Django for Designers/Laptop setup

Actual setup guide

Goal #1: Set up git

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

Goal #2: Practice navigating the computer from a command prompt

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

Goal #3: Set up Python

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

Goal #4: Prepare a text editor

• Windows
• Linux
• OS X

Goal #5: Prepare the workshop code, via git

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

Goal #6: Create a special Python environment for the workshop

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

Goal #7: Checkoff

Demonstrate to your own satisfaction that the following things work:

1. You can open a command prompt.
2. You can use cd to get around.
3. You can run git and see a help message (rather than "Command not found").
4. You can run python in the command prompt.
5. You have a text editor configured to use spaces to indent.
6. You have done the git clone command to get the workshop code.
7. You have a virtualenv where you have installed the workshop's dependencies.

Setup guide, for instructors

• Provide a printed check-off sheet, and have TAs roam around and make sure students demo the check-off sheet

Other things

• Give people a Django cheat sheet

Asheesh questions

Then enter:
$ git branch my-branch-1

• Did you forget "git checkout"?

• TA guide should have instructions for addressing:
  • If the student can't push during the Sharing section, and it is because they worked on local master, have them rename the branch
  • do github in sharing

• get some TAs