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Posted by fmb_3 on January 13, 2011 at 9:52pm

Being a n00b to Drupal and not being able to attend the 'Drupal Intro Camp NYC' in January, what books/resources would you all recommend that I can not only get drupal off the ground, but learn about things UberCart integration or use of EventBrite (long...ok, not so long, story about what my goals are and how I would need to be able to have students book classes using either of those tools).

Anyway, happy Drupalling and thank you for your time!

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O'Reilly's "Using Drupal" is pretty good

Posted by benrosenthal on January 13, 2011 at 10:07pm
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I'm kind of a Drupal newbie myself, and I've had some good experiences with the O'Reilly book "Using Drupal." There are a bunch of hands-on case studies inside that walk you through configuring different kinds of sites and therefore customizing modules. Good stuff.

I agree, O'Reilly's "Using

Posted by voyelle on January 17, 2011 at 3:09pm
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I agree, O'Reilly's "Using Drupal" is pretty good book to begin with, Also there is another one "Front End Drupal" which is going to help with theming and designing your Drupal site pretty good too. Once you are familiar with Drupal and you want to go deeper into coding "Pro Drupal Development" is the one, helps for writing modules and understanding hooks etc ....
I hope this will help you.

A couple of my favorites

Posted by phunster on January 18, 2011 at 4:14pm
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I like Pro Drupal Development (second edition for 6 third edition for 7)

Another excellent book is "Drupal's Building Blocks: Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels"

Learning Drupal

Posted by joebachana on January 18, 2011 at 4:36pm
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Here's the definitive text for a n00b, written by none other than Angie Byron (webchick), Jeff Eaton, and a few other Drupal rockstars. Very practical guide since it takes you through Drupal from a case study standpoint with each chapter.

http://www.amazon.com/Using-Drupal-Angela-Byron/dp/0596515804

I might be wrong about this, but I'd start with Drupal 6 first, then learn D7. Others may disagree, but first if you want to get work now, there's far more D6 implementations happening that need good qualified people. Also, I think it is good to learn the antecedents of a great software, but that might be an aesthetic consideration more than a technical one.

Congrats by the way -- you'll learn to love Drupal so much it will hurt, I promise.

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