dthyresson / apprenticeship

A packet to give new apprentices. It should be printed out and waiting on their desk when they arrive.

Apprentice Onboarding Packet

This is the onboarding packet for new apprentices. It should be given to them on their first day.

So You Just Started Mentoring a New Apprentice

Great! Here's how you use this:

• Print out pdf/onboarding-packet.pdf and fill in your name, then give it to your apprentice
• Make sure they know that we'd love feedback on this packet
• Encourage your apprentice to flip through the packet, but it's a reference, not a novel. Think of how you'd read a dictionary.
• You should read pdf/mentor-handbook.pdf.

Editing

You should edit markdown/onboarding-packet.md, which is built into a lovely PDF in the pdf/ directory.

Don't put links in onboarding-packet.md, put bare URLs instead so that they show up when printed:

Bad:

Try [Google](http://google.com).

Good:

Try Google (http://google.com).

Building

Requirements:

• Pandoc
• LaTeX
  • Use BasicTeX, which is a much smaller download than full LaTeX.

Then:

rake

View output:

open pdf/onboarding-packet.pdf
open pdf/get-a-job.pdf

Releasing

To build a new PDF and release it to GitHub:

rake release

Credits

Thank you, contributors!

This repository is maintained by thoughtbot, inc.

License

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