Create an account on github

If you already have an account skip this step.

https://github.com/

Install ROS

NOTE: you should do this before the start of the workshop, because it might take some time. Recommended versions: ROS Kinetic, Ubuntu 16.04.

To install, follow these instructions.

Initialize you catkin workspace

Follow the instructions from here

Complete some ROS tutorials

ROS tutorials 1 through 16 from http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials should be completed.

Use the catkin (and not rosbuild) to build your packages

You can skip the python tutorials