Day 1 — Installation and concepts

Today's lessons

Today introduces the fundamental concepts of content management systems, with a special focus on TYPO3 CMS. Students will explore the basics of CMS functionality, TYPO3's core concepts, and essential development tools including Docker, DDEV, and Composer. This foundational day establishes the groundwork for setting up a local development environment and understanding modern web development workflows.

Prerequisites and goals

Prerequisites

Theoretical prerequisites

This day assumes that you already know the following:

Theoretical Prerequisites for Stage 1

Practical prerequisites

Before you start this day, please have the following things ready:

Practical Prerequisites for Stage 1

Goals

Theoretical goals

By the end of this day, you should know the following:

Basic understanding of CMS concepts
Basic understanding of TYPO3
Basic understanding of TYPO3's filesystem
Basic understanding of TYPO3's database
Basic understanding of Git
Basic understanding of DDEV
Basic understanding of Composer
Basic understanding of the Bootstrap framework
Knowledge of the different documentation sources

Practical goals

By the end of this day, you should have completed the following:

You have shown that you meet the practical prerequisites
You have shown that you meet the theoretical prerequisites
You have shown that you understand the basic concepts behind TYPO3
You have been introduced to the different documentation sources