Overview of Drupal Learning Materials

“One head is good, but much better” - I thought, and decided to ask the Drupal developers where they got their knowledge from.

This is how the project “ 3 links that made you a drupaler ” appeared on the basis of the Drupal community in St. Petersburg: experienced and novice drupalers share materials that helped them personally in learning this wonderful CMS.

In this post we have gathered links to the best resources for exploring Drupal .

Before you begin ...

You choose which blogs to read and whose screencasts to watch, but there are 2 main links: Drupal.org and Google.
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Video

To understand the Drupal-way, watch how others work with it:

• NodeOne Learning library
  Series of short video tutorials on key modules of Drupal: Views , Rules , Page manager , etc.
• CodeKarate.com: Daily Dose of Drupal
  Wide coverage of topics and reviews. More than 40 categories , more than 140 short video lessons.
  
• Video from international conferences DrupalCon - Munich 2012 , Prague 2013 , etc.
• Drupalize.Me
  The most powerful video library on Drupal, on which the team of professionals Lullabot.com. Most of the material is available for a paid subscription.
  
• Podrupalim.com ^Russian
  Courses on the basics of Drupal and key modules in Russian.

Aggregators

• Drupal planet
  Main tape Drupal articles. It is better to read via RSS.
• Theweeklydrop
  Weekly mailing. Many interesting articles and reviews for every taste.
• Drupal bloggers ^Russian

The best in Runet

• xandeadx.ru
  The xandeadx blog contains short notes with solutions to specific problems and code examples.
• DrupalAce.ru
  Large articles with descriptions of the principles of the drupal, examples of code and reviews of its own modules.
• Drupal-TV.ru - aggregator of video materials on Drupal.
• Drupal.ru is the most famous Drupal site in RuNet.

Code

• api.drupal.org - official API documentation
• dropbucket.org - Drupal snippets
• drupalcontrib.org - API contrib modules
• Examples for Developers - examples of using the kernel API

Books

• Drupal. Site creation and management (A. Byron)
• Pro Drupal Development (D. Vandyuk)
• Professional development of sites on Drupal 7

miscellanea

• drupalmodules.com - handy search by module.
• Lullabot Blog
  Blog from the Lullabot.com team with famous Module Monday reviews.
• www.drush.org
  Drash, a console utility for Drupal that simplifies the routine tasks of downloading modules, resetting the cache, transferring a site from server to server, etc.

For more detailed tips and comments from the participants, see the DrupalSPB.org series of articles .

Where to ask a question / show your code?

• On dru.io
• On Toaster
• At drupal.stackexchange.com
• On Drupal.ru
• At an event in your city (DrupalCafe, DrupalMeetup, DrupalDrinkup)

How to help?

• Tell us in the comments or on Twitter that helped you learn Drupal.
• Share this material with friends.
• Install Drupal already and make cool sites on it!

I, as the author of this venture with a collection of useful links, thank all the project participants and the organizers of the Drupal community in St. Petersburg for their assistance in implementation. I hope the material will help beginners to learn Drupal and make the Drupal community in Russia stronger and more professional!