Imagine an intro Drupal course. For humans who know a little about HTML, Web pages, nav bars.
Course goal: how to speak conversational Drupan. The language Drupalistas speak, day to day.
That means knowing how Drupalistas think. Concepts like blocks. Patterns like "A list o' content, w' teasers? 'at's a view."
More Drupan: There's core, changes slowly. There's core-ish things like Views and Admin menu. There's the Wild West Contrib Show.
How to choose, from the Contrib Show? That's part of speaking Drupan.
Need advice? You'll need to speak conversational Drupan. Know where to speak it. IRC, issue queues, BADCamp, G.D.O.
Student assessment:
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Create a basic site, e.g., brochureware w/ blog.
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Explain the site in Drupan.
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Add unusual feature X, that needs contrib. Explain how you did it. How did you look for solutions? How did you choose?
What do you think?
Kieran