Start here. http://nodeschool.io/#workshoppers. Do "learnyounode".

Starting for structure http://patternlab.io/docs/index.html

1. Atoms -> Pages progress.
2. Create a basic Atom to show individual HTML playgrounds
3. Import 2-3 Atoms into a Molecule
4. Import multiple Molecules into an Organism
5. Demonstrate how variables work by creating generic, global variables in _data.json
6. Demonstrate how to override global variables by using sidecar JSON (so 00-homepage.mustache has 00-homepage.json right next to it)