[themes] Minute to learn - lifetime to master....

[Roger]

> Chris,  With all due respect, I think how fast/easy you pick up Drupal
> depends on
> your prior experience.  I have many years experience doing traditional
> programming
> (c, .net, etc).  I was able to get rolling with Drupal fairly painlessly
> (set up the menu structure,
> start adding content).  Granted, as I continue on there are some tough
> hurdles.
> Views, Content Types for instance.  That was tough, but I'm getting there.
> I know there are
> a lot of hurdles yet to come.
> As a coder, I solved some problems with PHP code behind the scenes.  But,
> as I got close
> to making it work, I started understanding how I could have done the same
> thing entirely
> within Drupal with no PHP outside.
> It's been a strange trip indeed.
> Phil
>
I had this experience lately from another angle.
Was teaching a php programmer to develop a site in Drupal 7 but they 
didn't get it and kept reverting back to hacking the core, modules and 
themes instead of just doing the drupal thing and using the tools.
Go figure!
Roger