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 # Contributing to Flyte
 
 For information related to contributing to Flyte, please check out the [Contributing to Flyte](https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/community/contribute/index.html) section of the documentation.
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+## Recommendation Order (For Beginners)
+* Setup dev environment 
+* Read the following and run at least 5 examples. Pay close attention to the generated outputs, the Graph view, task  
+  logs, etc. Repeat with as many examples as you need to have an initial understanding of what an execution looks like:
+  * https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/user_guide/introduction.html
+  * https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/flytesnacks/userguide.html
+* Finish reading the [Concepts](https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/user_guide/concepts/main_concepts/index.html)
+* Finish reading the [Control Plane](https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/user_guide/concepts/control_plane/index.html)
+* Finish reading the [Component Architecture](https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/user_guide/concepts/component_architecture/index.html)
+* Choose 2 good first issues from the following and start solving them with the knowledge you have read.
+* Familiar with using [ImageSpec to push images to localhost for development](https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/user_guide/customizing_dependencies/imagespec.html#image-spec-example)