New Team Member Checklist - Potential Checklist Items

This sample new team member checklist can be used as a starting point for your own master list.

• Create a GitHub account (if you don’t have one) and ask team leader to add you to the team GitHub organization.
• Become a member of all appropriate repositories in the team GitHub organization.
• Identify any new repos that should be created, especially if your research topic is new.
• Learn LaTeX using the https://github.com/Collegeville/Scribe repository.
• At least one of your repos will be a LaTeX collection that will contain your annotated bibliography and the starting point for at least one technical report, which will be an ongoing record of your progress.
• Sign up for a Udacity online learning account at https://www.udacity.com, if you don’t have one already. You will use Udacity for some of your introductory training.
• Take the Udacity course Software Development Process at https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud805.
• Take the Udacity course How to Use Git and GitHub at https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud775.
• Take the online courses in C++: http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c++-tutorial.html and http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial
• Redo CS200 labs in C++

The text below can be copied and pasted into a new GitHub issue called Firstname Lastname Initiation Checklist in your issues-only repository (note that text is chopped at the right but will be copied). The - [ ] notation will create a checklist item in the issue, which can be used to track progress.

- [ ] Create a GitHub account (if you don't have one) and ask team leader to add you to the team GitHub organization.
- [ ] Become a member of all appropriate repositories in the team GitHub organization.
- [ ] Identify any new repos that should be created, especially if your research topic is new.
- [ ] Learn LaTeX using the https://github.com/Collegeville/Scribe repository.
- [ ] At least one of your repos will be a LaTeX collection that will contain your annotated bibliography and the starting point for at least one technical report, which will be an ongoing record of your progress.
- [ ] Sign up for a Udacity online learning account at https://www.udacity.com, if you don't have one already.  You will use Udacity for some of your introductory training.
- [ ] Take the Udacity course Software Development Process at https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud805.
- [ ] Take the Udacity course How to Use Git and GitHub at https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud775.
- [ ] Take the online courses in C++: http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c++-tutorial.html and http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial
- [ ] Redo CS200 labs in C++