[consulting] Drupal Primer Course

[Zack Rosen]

This would be an amazing addition to the Drupal Camp effort

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-Zack

On Apr 11, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Sami Khan wrote:

> 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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