Could anyone give me a step by step guide to using VASP for DFT calculations?

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could anyone give me a step by step guide to using VASP for DFT calculations. I have tried using vaspwiki and other online resources but they don't give an easy to understand workflow and are sometimes contradictory.
 
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VASP = Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package.
DFT = Density Functional Theory.
 
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Baluncore said:
VASP = Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package.
DFT = Density Functional Theory.
Discrete Fourier Transform? ( Guessing, since not sure what 'VASP' means )?
 

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