Developer Fundamentals (4 day instructor led class in DC)

This four-day course provides a comprehensive understanding of Drupal 8 Site Building and Front End development. The procedures throughout the week are introduced step-by-step and then reinforced with practice and challenges. You'll build multiple sites and themes to meet the needs of a client and reflect on your own experience to take the procedures you learn back into your own work and any new situations you encounter.

Course Outline
Site Building Day 1

• Under the Hood of a Simple Website
• Setting up a local environment
• Getting Started
• What is Drupal?
• What Features Does Drupal 8 Offer?
• Important Drupal Terminology
• Drupal 8 Administration Toolbar
• Content Types and Content Modeling
• Structured Content Types
• Custom Content Types and Fields
• Categorize Content with Taxonomy
• Understanding Content Workflows
• User Roles and Permissions
• Creating Roles and Assigning Permissions
• Account Registration Settings
• The Authenticated User Registration Form
• Creating a Content Editor Account via Administrator

Site Building Day 2

• Building What Appears on the Page
• Page Layouts with Blocks
• Custom Blocks
• Building Dynamic Lists of Content with Views
• Views Displays
• Custom URL Aliases
• Configuration Synchronization
• Building Complex Views
• Contextual Filters
• Relationships
• Exposing Filter Options to Visitors
• Creating a View that Returns a List of Content in JSON
• Fielding Entities and Managing Displays
• Review Adding Fields to a Content Type
• Adding Fields to a Content Type
• Adding Fields to a Taxonomy Term
• Adding Fields to Block Types
• Review Display Modes
• Images and Display
• drupal.org and Extending Drupal
• drupal.org Community Resources
• Extending Drupal with Modules
• Using Themes
• Layout & Theming Day 3
• Drupal Theming Fundamentals
• How Does Drupal Theming Work?
• What are Themers?
• Making a Simple Theme
• Working with Regions
• Adding Libraries and Dependencies
• Advanced .info.yml Options
• Adding Breakpoints
• Customizing Your Theme
• Anatomy of a Theme
• Coding Standards in Drupal
• Introduction to Twig Template Files
• Overrides, Available Variables, and Hooks
• Adding Custom Regions
• Breadcrumbs

Layout & Theming Day 4

• Base Themes and Subtheming
• Base Themes, Subthemes, and Core Themes
• Using Subthemes
• File Inheritance
• Matching a Design Mockup Using Drupal
• The Client's Design
• Enabling Twig Debugging & Installing Devel
• Creating a New Subtheme from the Classy Base Theme
• Configuring Drupal
• Using Template Overrides
• Adding CSS

Should I Take this Course?
This course is perfect for those who are:

• newly responsible for a Drupal 8 website
• planning to build a new site in Drupal 8
• preparing for delivery of a new Drupal 8 development
• looking to firm up Acquia best practice knowledge for Drupal 8 Certification

Recommended Experience
Having a basic understanding of the following technologies is helpful, but not required:

Authoring content using a Content Management system

• Experience with Drupal's administrative interface
• Some HTML, CSS knowledge