drop tasks for Drupal students
Later this week I'm holding a Drupal introductory class at the university of Szeged, Hungary. I would like to show the students how easy it is to become part of the Drupal community. That's why I thought that besides the not-for-profit Drupal project they have to do for the course, I would ask students to get at least 5 DROP points as a condition for succeeding with the course. Do you think this is a good idea? If I do this I will need lots of DROP tasks cause I'll have something between 30 and 50 students. So if you have any bitesize tasks a newbie can handle, please add them at http://drop.cwgordon.com
Woot! Way to go! Gabor On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Kristof Van Tomme <kristof@pronovix.com> wrote:
Later this week I'm holding a Drupal introductory class at the university of Szeged, Hungary.
I would like to show the students how easy it is to become part of the Drupal community. That's why I thought that besides the not-for-profit Drupal project they have to do for the course, I would ask students to get at least 5 DROP points as a condition for succeeding with the course. Do you think this is a good idea?
If I do this I will need lots of DROP tasks cause I'll have something between 30 and 50 students. So if you have any bitesize tasks a newbie can handle, please add them at http://drop.cwgordon.com
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 4:43:48 am Kristof Van Tomme wrote:
Later this week I'm holding a Drupal introductory class at the university of Szeged, Hungary.
I would like to show the students how easy it is to become part of the Drupal community. That's why I thought that besides the not-for-profit Drupal project they have to do for the course, I would ask students to get at least 5 DROP points as a condition for succeeding with the course. Do you think this is a good idea?
If I do this I will need lots of DROP tasks cause I'll have something between 30 and 50 students. So if you have any bitesize tasks a newbie can handle, please add them at http://drop.cwgordon.com
Hmm, that's a good idea. I have on my plate to teach the Computer Merit Badge [2] to some local Boy Scouts [1]. For the programming portion (requirement 7, item c), I am planning to use PHP with a lead in to Drupal, but I don't really have anything definite in mind beyond that. I could also use DROP and have them complete a task or two (or three or four...) during the class. For my purposes, however, they would have to be rather basic tasks, as that portion of the class will only be about 1.5 to 2 hours, and will include some basic programming concepts as well as an introduction to PHP. [1] http://scouting.org/ [2] http://meritbadge.org/index.php?title=Computers -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadaeh.net/ Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 15; Cramer, 13; Travis, 11; Angela; Harry, 7; and William, 2) Linux User: http://www.kubuntu.org/ Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/
Kristof Van Tomme wrote:
Later this week I'm holding a Drupal introductory class at the university of Szeged, Hungary.
I would like to show the students how easy it is to become part of the Drupal community. That's why I thought that besides the not-for-profit Drupal project they have to do for the course, I would ask students to get at least 5 DROP points as a condition for succeeding with the course. Do you think this is a good idea?
If I do this I will need lots of DROP tasks cause I'll have something between 30 and 50 students. So if you have any bitesize tasks a newbie can handle, please add them at http://drop.cwgordon.com <http://drop.cwgordon.com/>
Eek. That means those of us with tasks need to get off our butts and actually write them up. (That's currently the downside; having to sufficiently write up the tasks that they can be completed =)
This seems like an amazing opportunity to write more tests -- Cheers, Bill Earl Miles wrote:
Kristof Van Tomme wrote:
Later this week I'm holding a Drupal introductory class at the university of Szeged, Hungary.
I would like to show the students how easy it is to become part of the Drupal community. That's why I thought that besides the not-for-profit Drupal project they have to do for the course, I would ask students to get at least 5 DROP points as a condition for succeeding with the course. Do you think this is a good idea?
If I do this I will need lots of DROP tasks cause I'll have something between 30 and 50 students. So if you have any bitesize tasks a newbie can handle, please add them at http://drop.cwgordon.com <http://drop.cwgordon.com/>
Eek. That means those of us with tasks need to get off our butts and actually write them up. (That's currently the downside; having to sufficiently write up the tasks that they can be completed =)
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Another really great opportunity here is in writing documentation. We often complain that we can't look at Drupal with fresh eyes, which makes it difficult to write quick start guides/documentation geared towards newer users, since we've forgotten the issues we struggled with initially. It'd be great to leverage all these new perspectives to get some more documentation geared towards entry level users written. Brad
http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/basic There are a whole heck of a lot of one page write ups on basic content management in drupal that could be done. How to create a category (hierarchy - disabled / single /disabled) How to configure comments How to configure default content type behavior How to set a node as default front page How to set up a category list (like the default front page) and alias and link it in the menu How to create a page-front.tpl.php How often cron.php should be run.... What cron.php does.... There are a lot of basic Drupal set up tasks that could be written up from people to link to them. There are a lot of things that we now take for granted, so you should have someone set it up and write down any question they have following the install portion of the getting started guide maybe? This section (http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/configure) is essentially a basic overview on setting up your site. It is very very basic. It is designed to have you visit the different /admin areas I have been sick since the con and computer monitors to bright for long, so there are some responses to other threads that will be slower then I'd like. Steven On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Brad Bowman <brad@atendesigngroup.com> wrote:
Another really great opportunity here is in writing documentation. We often complain that we can't look at Drupal with fresh eyes, which makes it difficult to write quick start guides/documentation geared towards newer users, since we've forgotten the issues we struggled with initially. It'd be great to leverage all these new perspectives to get some more documentation geared towards entry level users written.
Brad
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