[consulting] Drupal Primer Course

[Adrian Rossouw]

On 12 Apr 2006, at 12:57 AM, John Sechrest wrote:
> So given that you have people who are basically literate, what are  
> the outcomes
> of the class/courseware?
>
> What can they do after the class that they could not do before the  
> class?
>
> Can you make a detailed list/answer to this?

Man. I'm actually having trouble putting together a detailed answer  
to this.

I suppose it would be teaching people how to use the tools available  
to build
their own site, with a breakdown of the tools, including the basic  
knowledge
of how to assemble them.

One of the big things I do think however, is teaching people how to  
use cvs,
the drupal patch queue and how to find information on drupal.org.  
Some background
on the community, and how to be a good member of it, and the benefits  
of contributing
as much as possible is also something I'd like to see discussed.

I would also like to show them how to evaluate modules for their  
purposes,
and to know in what ways they can adjust modules if they don't fit  
exactly.

Kind of delineate the point where just using what is there and  
themeing it,
actually modifying the code, or tossing it all and writing your own  
lies.

Modules like views, and cck are hopefully going to make the second and
third case happen less often, which is why I would like to teach them  
how
to use that too (plus having decent documentation on those would be  
invaluable to all developers)

Perhaps we should discuss this in IRC and see if we can put together  
a good
solid set of goals.

Whatever the actual goals are, I think angie's course layout is a  
good deal of the way there.

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Adrian Rossouw
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