[consulting] Drupal Primer Course

[Sami Khan]

Hey Adrian,

If you're going to go about doing this, I would be interested in being a
part of the process as long as its going to end up on drupal.org. Also I
have a partner who would also be interested. You could go about it two
ways, there could be a hacking approach and a clean-start tutorial
approach.

Hacking Approach:
You take a module, explain how it works, and then go through a sequence of
procedures to change it and add additional features to it, etc.

Clean-start stub tutorial:
You start fresh with something like a bunch of stubs and then add to those
stubs to complete a module. You can have different types of modules that
the users can complete, increasing in complexity. While you do this
process you explain in as much depth and breadth how the code that they're
acting is actually functioning. For instance when you first describe a
hook, you explain the entire hook system that Drupal has.

Those are some of my thoughts.

Regards,
Sami Khan


> Hey guys.
>
> Kieran suggested I post to this list about my plans.
>
> South Africa is still stuck in Web 0.8, with people still selling
> front-page designed sites for thousands of dollars.
>
> Due to the bad exchange rate, and the general distrust of
> international outsourcing,
> and the backwards state of our web industry,  local clients are
> completely unwilling
> to pay people overseas to do any development, and the lack of
> (quality?) Drupal developers
> makes the Drupal industry here stillborn.
>
> I have several friends who are now doing freelance development, who are
> either interested in, or have started doing Drupal development here
> in South Africa.
> All of these people I introduced / got interested in doing Drupal,
> and most of them
> just need a short introduction to get them up to speed.
>
> So in the interest of getting my friends into the fold and improving
> the community,
> I have decided I want to run a short primer course on Drupal, for people
> who already know php / web development.
>
> At first I was planning to do it in an unofficial nature, but I
> realised that it would make
> more sense to actually build some courseware / tutorial documentation
> out of this
> process, and it would make teaching the subject far easier too.
>
> I have contacted my friend who is an RHCE /ICDL trainer, and has
> written courseware
> for several other courses. He has agreed to help me / us write the
> courseware and format
> the course well.
>
> I have also got the use of a training lab to teach the course in. And
> although I only have about
> 4 people interested in doing the course, I would consider going up to
> a max of 8 people.
>
> What I would like to do, is build some courseware to put on
> Drupal.org, and coordinate
> with other people who would be interested in doing drupal training /
> putting together
> a primer course to train up their own developers.
>
> The tentative dates I have scheduled for the course is 19 to 23 June
> 2006, or 22 to 26 June 2006.
> I think that's more than enough time to get the necessary
> documentation together. A lot of this
> will be presenting the information already in the handbook in a
> structured manner, with exercises
> and the like.
>
> Remember, the goal is not to mint new programmers. The turning people
> who already know
> PHP / XHTML / CSS into Drupal developers.
>
> Does anyone have any input on this ? What should we be teaching
> people getting into drupal?
>
> --
> Adrian Rossouw
> Drupal developer and Bryght Guy
> http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com
>
>
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