Training Syllabus

Tobu Pengin Internship — 4-Month Program

This page tracks the full training schedule, along with which handouts exist and which are still being prepared, so interns and mentors can both see what's coming and when.

Handouts: Week 1 · Week 2 · Week 3-4 · Week 5

Working on the codebase: Contribution Workflow

Status key

• Complete — handout written and available
• Delivered — handout written and already covered with the intern
• To prepare — handout still being written
• Ongoing — recurring work with no dedicated handout

Month 1 — Python & Tooling Foundations

Week 1 — Week 1

• Python classes, inheritance, and MRO (method resolution order) Handout: MRO guide — To prepare. Flagged as important: the codebase leans heavily on mixins and abstract classes, and MRO is what decides the order they run in.
• Python dunder methods Handout: Dunder methods guide — Complete
• Python decorators Handout: Decorators guide — Complete

Week 2 — Week 2

• Python builtins Handout: Builtins guide — Delivered
• Python operators Handout: Operators guide — Delivered
• Add-on: error handling (assert, raise) and type hints Handout: Error handling and type hints guide — To prepare. A team improvement area.

Weeks 3–4 — Week 3-4

Week 3 — Django

• Django component overview Handout: Django overview guide — To prepare
• Django admin quick start — server, models, views, templates Handout: Django quick-start guide — To prepare

Week 4 — Git, GitHub, and Docker

• Git fundamentals Handout: Git fundamentals guide — To prepare
• GitHub: branches, issues, commits Handout: GitHub workflow guide — To prepare
• Docker basic administration Handout: Docker admin guide — To prepare
• Docker project use Handout: Docker project-use guide — To prepare

Week 4 onward

• Issues, as capable — Ongoing. No standalone handout; work is pulled from the real backlog. See Contribution Workflow.

Month 2 — Pengin-Pi-3 Platform

Week 5 — Week 5

• Pengin-Pi-3 overview Handout: Pengin-Pi-3 overview — To prepare
• Pengin-Pi-3 fundamentals Handout: Pengin-Pi-3 fundamentals — To prepare

The project documentation is the companion reading for this month — start with Architecture and Slugs and Pages.

Weeks 6–8

• Pengin-Pi-3 app development Handout: App development guides — To prepare. Likely split into separate week 6, 7, and 8 handouts.

Weeks 5–8

• Issues, as capable — Ongoing

Month 3 — Applied Work

Weeks 9–12

• Issues — Ongoing
• Projects Handout: Project briefs — To prepare. Scope defined before the month starts.
• Challenges Handout: Challenge prompts — To prepare

Month 4 — Wrap-Up & Offboarding

Weeks 13–16

• Issues — Ongoing
• Final knowledge checks Handout: Knowledge-check materials — To prepare
• Interview prep Handout: Interview prep guide — To prepare
• Offboarding Handout: Offboarding checklist — To prepare

Contributing to the codebase

From week 4 onward, interns work real issues on the project. How that work moves from a branch to a merge — the internal GitLab, branch naming, review, and what's expected in a merge request — is covered in Contribution Workflow.

Interns contribute through the internal GitLab, not the public GitHub mirror. The public rules for outside contributors are on the Contributing page; the placement rules there — what belongs in an app, in main, and in util/ — apply to interns too.

Server & CI/CD Access

Server administration access is granted as needed. It requires signing a use policy and supplying valid ID.

Onboarding for server and CI/CD administration is provided to authorized users once access is granted.