Using This Book
Audience - Sections to Read
Employers nowadays always ask for "Full Stack" Developers.
However, no-one in their right mind tries to go "Full Stack" while learning. It is better instead to focus on one aspect or another while reaching for that utterly impossible objective of Full Stack Developer.
Audience Role
This guide will have a small section at the beginning of each page for 'Audience':
- FrontEnd Developer
- BackEnd Developer
- Builder
- Maintainer
- Administrator
- DevOps
Traditionally, the Roles have been Site Builder, Site Maintainer, and Site Administrator. In the RESTful API world of Drupal 8 (more on this later), the titles may not ever refers to 'Sites'.
Audience Rank
Additionally, the 'n00b level' will give a little detail on how complicated the knowledge is. Though all knowledge will attempt to be presented in total-n00b friendly fashion, sometimes it just is not.
- Elite n00b
- Advanced n00b
- Confident n00b
- n00b
At the rate technology changes, we're all n00bs.
I kinda like it that way.
Content
A n00b's Guide to Drupal, Development, & Everything (Or something like that...) is, as mentioned previously, written to be a journey. It is up to you, the Reader, to choose your path.
The goal of the book design is for each Volume and Chapter to be roughly stand-alone. Chapters, Sections, and pages will continually be updated throughout the publication and development of the book to ensure consistency and smooth transitions between knowledge.
d.o is a treasure-trove of information and is gloriously not nearly the quagmire of horror and nightmares it once was. One of the primary goals of this book at its inception was to first include and then incorporate the vast reservoir of knowledge within d.o. Finally, the knowledge would be presented in the most logical and organized manner the Author can manage. Thankfully, however, Drupal's Documentation Working Group instead took
The original publication of the n00b's Guide assumes the Reader is developing in either Drupal 7 or Drupal 8, unless specified otherwise. Each Drupal-centric chapter will eventually have three (or more) sections: Drupal 8 Drupal 7. The number of future sections may even grow to incorporate specific instructions for Drupal Distributions such as Commerce Kickstart, Open Atrium, and Opigno LMS.
Drupal 6 was originally going to be addressed. However, the Drupal 6 CMS has become so deprecated that it would not be worth the time to write. Many parts of Drupal 7 will also be phased out and, where appropriate, only the Drupal 8 version will be shown.
Design
This book is written using the altogether awesome language called Markdown.
Markdown was authored by John Gruber as an easy and fast text-to-HTML tool for web writers. One # is H1 and actively translates to straight HTML when rendered. For the 'Raw' text of this book, visit my GitHub page.
Blocks of code, as seen later, will look like this.
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
<footer>
</footer>
</html>
As seen, little random quotes and important definitions will be in a block like this:
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." ~ Mark Twain
Most times, if you find it in a block-quote and it is a definition, it is very important to remember long-term.