What to do after putting in new hard drive?

I have installed a new hard drive into my macbook pro, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Should I plug in my external hard drive before or after booting my macbook pro? And then what do I do? Will Mavericks re-install, along with all my other applications? P.S. First time doing this ever.

Then you should be able to boot from that time machine drive to a version of the Mavericks Recovery HD and froom there use disk utility to partition and format the drive Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and the partition table set to GUID. That is under the Options button.
Then once that is done you can restore your system from that TM backup from that same original option screen.
To boot from your TM backup drive have it connected and turn on your Mac then at the chime hold down the Option key and a boot selection screen will come up. Select the External as the boot source.

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