Foreword
Final Wordcount
This book was originally inspired by @NaNoWriMo, but took on a life of its own when compared against how much sheer knowledge needing to be imparted exists. Drupal has a long, rich, and vibrant history. Writing anything less than a long, rich, and vibrant introductional guide does it no justice.
Despite goals, notes, and two half-compositions notebooks worth of research, tutorial addresses, video feeds, and software crash-testing, the final wordcount on 11/30/2015 at 11:59pm was only 6,259 words. Considering my other book is pushing 30,000 words (though unpublished), I am satisfied with this.
Foreword
As opposed to the books referenced below (which should be read extensively) the aim of the n00b's guide is to cultivate aspiring Web Developers, Administrators and Site Builders through a carefully aligned journey.
By happy coincidence, the journey (roughly) matches the Core Competencies as detailed by Acquia's Drupal Certification Study Guides.
Other Resources
The Documentation has useful gems:
- d.o | Drupal 7 - The Essentials
- This lovely gem was added via the Creative Commons license to drupal.org in May 2012. For Developers transferring their current knowledge-base into Drupal-Development, this book is amazing. Unfortunately, the book also makes a number of assumptions, such as Development being done in a Drupal 7 environment and Developers knowing exactly what they are doing like Code Ninjas for everything not directly Drupal.
- d.o | Drupal 7 Documentation
- The Drupal 7 Documentation is a great go-to resource for quick-search answers.... when you actually know the question.
- d.o | Drupal 8 User Guide
- The Drupal 8 User Guide takes an approach not previously used by Drupal: Providing Site Builders a 'starting point' on documentation. Large portions of the n00b's Guide will try and follow the well thought out approach within the Drupal 8 User Guide.
- More information as it becomes available.
Note
This book is both a work-in-progress (WIP) and a research driven commitment to Novice Level Drupal, Front-End Development, Back-End Development, Ansible, VNWare, Drush, etc. knowledge aggregation.
It is not, and will never be, for example, The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7. I cheerfully take zero responsibility for faults or mistakes in this book and will just as cheerfully accept comments, Contribs, etc.