[consulting] Drupal Primer Course

[John Sechrest]

I would be glad to contribute to the development of an outline and a series of 
online courseware for getting up to speed with drupal. I think having a fixed focus
is a very good idea.

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?




Adrian Rossouw <adrian at bryght.com> writes:

 % 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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