[Nfb-web] NFB-WEB Sandbox

Thu Mar 5 17:05:21 UTC 2009

I agree that Drupal can be a good platform for teaching web  
development.  It handles all of the background functionality so that  
students can become familiar with how a web-site works.  Afterwards  
students can begin to investigate PHP while developing custom modules  
for their Drupal installation.

However, I wouldn't say that Drupal is a good platform for teaching  
programing.  I think that the best way to teach programming is with a  
language like VB or C# which allows for learning about object oriented  
programming.

HTH,
Everett

On 5-Mar-09, at 9:45 AM, Michael Hansen wrote:

> Cool,  If there is something I can do to help let me know. I know
> people here in Nebraska that would be interested in such a resource.
>
> Mike
> ---
> Mike Hansen
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Arnold Bailey <arnoldbail at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Mike.
>>
>> Thanks to Everett and yourself for the comments.
>>
>> My interest in Drupal is twofold.
>>
>>   1. Curiosity and to expand my knowledge.
>>   2. I have this vision of creating a platform to draw blind and  
>> visually
>>   impaired students into investigating programming as a career. It  
>> would be
>>   great if it was at a national level; but, a chapter level is ok.  
>> With 70%
>>   unemployment in our community, there is obviously a great need. I  
>> must
>>   admit, though, that, other than Peter D,, I've found zero  
>> support. But, I
>>   can't give up the vision without feeling I've let down a lot of  
>> kids. The
>>   Drupal development platform and learning support activities that it
>>   requires, I think, is a great learning mechanism.
>>
>> Arnold
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Hansen  
>> <mhansen4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Arnold,
>>>
>>> Everett is correct. My thought on the matter would be how much do  
>>> you
>>> want the ISP to take care of versus how much are you the Admin  
>>> willing
>>> to take care of?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> ---
>>> Mike Hansen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:20 AM, E.J. Zufelt <everett at zufelt.ca>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Good morning,
>>>>
>>>> If the ISP supports mysQL and PHP it takes about 20 minutes to  
>>>> install
>>>> Drupal for a hosting account.
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Everett
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4-Mar-09, at 8:37 AM, Arnold Bailey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mike,
>>>>>
>>>>> Very nice work. I did notice that in firefox the navigation side  
>>>>> bar is
>>>>> located into the center of the webmasters sandbox page. In IE  
>>>>> it's fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> One question I have. Is there any thoughts given to affiliate and
>>> chapters
>>>>> usage of drupal? It seems like it would make sense for the  
>>>>> affiliate and
>>>>> chapters to pull a drupal theme and NFB applications and use  
>>>>> them on
>>> their
>>>>> site, The problem is that drupal is not usually found on most  
>>>>> ISPs. I
>>>>> would
>>>>> think that a single ISP that has drupal support would be cost
>>> effectively
>>>>> justified.
>>>>>
>>>>> Arnold
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Michael Hansen <mhansen4 at gmail.com 
>>>>> >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The Sandbox is now up and running on our website. If you want  
>>>>>> to play
>>>>>> around with a drupal install and not have to worry about breaking
>>>>>> something there is one there for you. If you want to experiment  
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> other things just create a sub directory off of the root and  
>>>>>> dorp in
>>>>>> your code. Complete login information is posted on our website.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know if you have questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Mike Hansen
>>>>>>
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