Drupal 8 for Absolute Beginners

James Barnett is an application architect and adjunct Professor in the Tech. Ops. & Information Management Division at Babson College. Besides teaching, his responsibilities include designing, coding, and releasing tools and websites for the college, working with Babson s leaders to keep Babson at the forefront of the technology space. In the last two years at Babson, James team has released the advanced discussion boards, the new Faculty Portal and Student Portal websites, as well as other important initiatives for Babson. James has brought Drupal Content Management System expertise to Babson a technology which accelerates development of cutting edge web platforms for community sites, web portals, and everything else the web can provide.James holds a Masters in Economics and Finance from Brandeis University, and as well a BA from Brandeis University. Past work experiences in the technology space include positions at: EMC, Fidelity, IDG, work as a consultant managing all the software technology needs of a startup out of Needham for over 3 years. As a technology consultant for many companies, he found success providing programming, database and information management, and system administration expertise.James areas of expertise include: PHP, MYSQL, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix/Linux, shell scripting, apache, JAVA, PERL, XSLT, JSON, XML, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, network operations skills, information management, load balancers, and front- and back-end web work.

1. Setting Up Your Development Environment and Installing Drupal 2. Site Building: Building Drupal Sites Without Programming 3. Getting Started with HTML 4. Creating a Basic Drupal Module with HTML Output 5. A CSS Primer for Drupal 6. Adding CSS to Your Drupal Module 7. A JavaScript Primer for Drupal 8. Adding JavaScript to Your Drupal Module 9. A PHP Primer for Drupal 10. Adding PHP-Generated Output to Your Drupal Module 11. Creating a Drupal Block Programmatically and Basic MySQL Usage 12. Theming Your Site Part 1: Theme Functions and a Twig Primer 13. Theming Your Site Part 2: Creating a Custom Theme and Overriding Functions 14. Commonly Needed Custom Code, node_save, Forms 15. Using Git to Manage Your Source Code 16. An Advanced MySQL Primer 17. A Linux Primer for Drupal 18. Publishing Your Site to a Production Linux Box 19. Appendix: Other Ways to Install Drupal