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 # BTech Time Tracker
 
-### To-Do
+### Getting started
+
+Requirements
+
+- install pipenv and run `pipenv install` to install dependencies
+- run `pipenv shell` to activate the virtual environment
+
+Django
+
+- `python manage.py makemigrations`
+- `python manage.py migrate`
+- `python manage.py createsuperuser`
+- `python manage.py runserver`
 
-- Add a "current_period" field to student that stores the fk of their current period.
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+#
+# These requirements were autogenerated by pipenv
+# To regenerate from the project's Pipfile, run:
+#
+#    pipenv lock --requirements
+#
+
+-i https://pypi.org/simple
+asgiref==3.3.1; python_version >= '3.5'
+django-appconf==1.0.4
+django-compressor==2.4
+django-easy-timezones==0.8.0
+django-libsass==0.8
+django-qr-code==2.1.0
+django==3.1.6
+ipaddress==1.0.16
+libsass==0.20.1
+pillow==8.1.0
+pygeoip==0.3.2
+pytz==2016.6
+qrcode==6.1
+rcssmin==1.0.6
+rjsmin==1.1.0
+segno==1.3.1; python_version >= '2.7' and python_version not in '3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4'
+six==1.15.0; python_version >= '2.7' and python_version not in '3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3'
+sqlparse==0.4.1; python_version >= '3.5'
+wheel==0.29.0