Hello folks,
I am following up on a discussion I had this weekend with @mlecha, about a training I have been delivering for Koumbit here in Montreal.
We discussed the idea of taking this training on the road, by offering a one-week intensive training in Ottawa, assuming sufficient interest.
My existing course materials focuses on introducing people to php programming with Drupal, and assumes participants with either existing programming experience or an existing in-depth knowledge of Drupal from an admin's perspective. This summer intensive would be a little more focused, aimed primarily at programmers and web developers learning Drupal 7.
The topics I would cover:
- The menu and permission system; how Drupal determines access to a page and then delivers it.
- The hook and hook_alter system in detail - understanding it and how to find the hooks you need to implement functionality.
- The database abstraction layer.
- The form api.
- The theme layer.
- Drupal's objects - looking at the element/field model and it's expression in nodes and users.
I would also be willing to include these topics, depending on interest:
- PHP syntax for programmers familiar with other scripting languages
- Intro to version control with git
- Contributing to the Drupal community - navigating issues, reviewing and submitting patches, and documentation
We are talking about 4 - 6 participants for a 6 day course, and so around 500-700$ a head, depending on the number of participants, in order to cover costs.
If you want to check out the old, existing course plan for the Drupal 6 course (in french):
If we are going to go ahead with this idea this summer we need to get moving fairly quickly...