open curriculum

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Exercise on Menu Hook

Areas covered

• Drupal code base
• Implementation of hooks
• Drupal Database structure

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Site Building Exercise

Areas covered

• Drupal Installation
• Site Building
• Blocks and Regions
• Roles and Permissions
• Content Types
• Database Structure
• Contributed Modules

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Drupal exercises for the in-class training

Here is the list of topics that we have exercises for in-class training.

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Introduction

The objective of this project is to build an open curriculum - syllabus, training material, exercises and a question bank - for training new recruits in Drupal companies. The curriculum is to be targeted at experienced PHP developers who are looking to get into Drupal development.

You can read more about the context and the motivation behind this initiative at https://www.drupal.org/node/2716503.

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Classification of Drupal developers based on knowledge and experience

Drupal is a vast and complex system. As a developer learns the system the person is expected to first understand the fundamentals of the system, then learn its architecture, then learn how to configure it, then learn how to build on top of it and also build using contributed modules, and finally build and extend the capabilities of the core and contributed modules through custom module development.

A system to classify developers as they learn and acquire experience is essential for organizations as they hire, train more developers and as developers move across organizations. It is in this light that we have put together the following system to classify Drupal developers according to their knowledge and experience.

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Expectations on the areas the developer has to learn across the year

After one year, a Drupal developer will be well versed with all the fields on Drupal development.
These are the fields, trainee expected to be knowledgeable:

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Drupal SEO

Drupal is a way for people to build great websites in a short period of time. By SEO standards, Drupal’s clean, open source code makes it a very flexible and powerful content management system (CMS), but it takes some work to get it configured just the right way for the search engines.

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Drupal Upgrade

It is important to know the upgrading process to a major version. Now, Drupal 8 is ready with a bunch of new features.

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Drupal Commerce

Electronic commerce (ecommerce) is a type of business model, or segment of a larger business model, that enables a firm or individual to conduct business over an electronic network, typically the internet

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Advanced Form API