Newly Employed Student Assistants

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For Newly Employed Student Assistants

  • First day -
    • Complete UCSB employment paperwork.
    • Begin work on schedule, optimal are windows of 1.5 to 3.0 hours, for 3-5 days a week.
    • Establish computer account(s) (NIS, Desktop, Support Website) with CNT.
    • Introduction to support website.
  • First week
    • Browse student section of support website.
    • Browse other sections of support website taking notes of items that are unclear or might need further documentation.
    • Introduction to routine tasks.
    • Gain familarity with routine tasks and begin completing those tasks each day.
    • Begin learning APIs or languages that may be needed for upcoming projects (PHP, HTML).
  • Second week and on - begin adding project(s) as available. Perform routine tasks as needed.
  • 2nd to last week of quarter - work on documentation and organization of past quarters work.
  • Last week of quarter - cleaning up and organizing.
    • Remove unneeded temporary and development files. This includes intermediate stage source code.
    • Verify that development projects still work and that the project code is in production location.
      • Run source
      • Check output