Submitted by book reader (not verified) on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 18:16.
The beginners I see starting with Drupal now are writing content and CSS, not PHP code. The last minute technical changes to Drupal are about fixing internal code, not changing themes and does not affect beginners. There could be admin layout/ui changes that would affect them and I would look through issues posted in that area.
All the modules of interest are available for D6. Some are going into core and will look the same. Image support and fields will look different to their ancestors. Your book should be stable when those two items have stable admin pages.
If D7 is delayed, there are a lot of people who will still want the book to prepare new sites using a D7 beta with a view to launching their sites as soon as D7 is declared stable. There are also a pile of Web students who should start their 2010 courses using D7 instead of D6. I have 6 people to introduce to Drupal in November and will get them started on D7, not D6. I would buy them a decent D7 starter book now if there were one in the shops.
Books might seem old fashion to some but most students have notebooks and cannot fit on the screen their lesson outline, three drupal.org documentation pages, an editor window, and the Web browser showing the result. Visual guides replace the first four items, leaving the notebook screen free for the remaining two windows.
The beginners I see starting with Drupal now are writing content and CSS, not PHP code. The last minute technical changes to Drupal are about fixing internal code, not changing themes and does not affect beginners. There could be admin layout/ui changes that would affect them and I would look through issues posted in that area.
All the modules of interest are available for D6. Some are going into core and will look the same. Image support and fields will look different to their ancestors. Your book should be stable when those two items have stable admin pages.
If D7 is delayed, there are a lot of people who will still want the book to prepare new sites using a D7 beta with a view to launching their sites as soon as D7 is declared stable. There are also a pile of Web students who should start their 2010 courses using D7 instead of D6. I have 6 people to introduce to Drupal in November and will get them started on D7, not D6. I would buy them a decent D7 starter book now if there were one in the shops.
Books might seem old fashion to some but most students have notebooks and cannot fit on the screen their lesson outline, three drupal.org documentation pages, an editor window, and the Web browser showing the result. Visual guides replace the first four items, leaving the notebook screen free for the remaining two windows.