I've spent sizeable chunks of the last year or so trying to learn Drupal. To start with, I had a problem understanding the documentation. Now I've overcome that hurdle, I'm experiencing issues with the *structure* of documentation. I am usually able to solve individual problems for individual projects, but if I want to learn something in a more abstract fashion - for example, learning how Drupal works with Javascript so that I can understand a JavaScript-based module - I come a bit unstuck.
I also hit problems if I want to sit down and just learn something new about Drupal. Sure, I can (and do) go onto IRC and ask a question along the lines of "I can do x, y and z with Drupal; what should I learn to do next?", but this doesn't always work and the quality of the answers I get just isn't consistent. So, what I'm proposing is something along the lines of Wikiversity ( http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page) for Drupal: a set of structured (but informal) courses that bring together different pieces of documentation from both within and without d.o. Has anything like this been tried before? What do you think of the idea? --J. -- Google Talk/Windows Live Messenger/AIM: [email protected] Yahoo! Messenger/Twitter/IRC (Freenode): jim0203 Jabber: [email protected] // ICQ: 7088050 Skype: jimbenstead
