Django for Designers/Laptop setup

Actual setup guide

• Install git

• Make sure Python works

• Make sure they know how to launch a command prompt

• Make sure they have a text editor, and have it configured to Python with 4 spaces

• Make sure they have done the git clone

• Make sure they have a virtualenv created

• Make sure they have installed the requirements.txt

• Python robot TA checkoff

(Optional; can be skipped)

• Make sure they have a Heroku account, and have the software installed

• Make sure they have a Github account

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