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Learning Exponential

Learning Exponential: learning paths, first sites, study projects and certifications.

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Students and learners: start here Where students, apprentices and self-taught learners start with Exponential. Learning paths for editors, administrators, developers and designers, a first site of your own, ten graded study projects, the Student partner… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Publish your portfolio free on GitHub Pages Build your portfolio in Exponential, publish it as a static site on GitHub Pages at no cost, and show employers both the site and the repository behind it. Students and learners Learning Exponential
How to study with the help Study habits that work with the Exponential help - how the help is organized, the read, do, check loop, a study installation of your own, notes and a study journal, reviewing with the trainers' quizzes, and what to do… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Keeping a study journal A simple study journal for learning Exponential - what to record for each session, a template you can copy, how to keep it in Git next to your study site, what never belongs in it, and how the journal later becomes part… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Choosing a learning path The four learning paths for students - editor, administrator, developer and designer - who each one suits, what you need before you start, how long each takes, how they build on each other, and which study projects… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Learning path: editor A step-by-step learning path for future editors, built from existing help pages - signing in, the content tree, creating and editing, media, publishing and versions, search, translations and pages with Exponential… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Learning path: administrator A step-by-step learning path for future site administrators, built from existing help pages and guides - installing, siteaccesses and settings, users and roles, sections, languages, caches, cronjobs, logs, security… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Learning path: developer A step-by-step learning path for future Exponential developers, built from existing help pages and guides - a development installation from Git clones, the content model, the template language, settings, fetch… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Learning path: designer A step-by-step learning path for design and front-end students, built from existing help pages - what a design is, the design cascade, the pagelayout, templates and overrides, stylesheets and scripts, accessibility and… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Your first site: three ways The three ways a learner gets a first Exponential site - the public demo, the one-command install on your own computer, and the browser setup wizard - plus Git clones for future developers, with what each needs, what… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Trying the public demo How a learner uses the project's public demo for a first look - where it is, where the sign-in details are published, what demo mode means for you, what to try in the first hour, what the demo cannot teach you, and when… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Installing a study site in one command A learner's walk through the documented quick start - get the code with Composer, install on SQLite with exp:install, serve the site with the php engine, sign in, change the password - with the expected output of each… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Installing with the setup wizard A learner's guide to the browser setup wizard - how it starts, the fifteen pages and what a study site should enter on each, what the wizard writes, what it teaches you about an installation, and how it differs from the… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Installing from Git clones for study How a developer student installs Exponential as Git clones with their full history, following Develop with Git - the one Composer setting, cloning the kernel, your own branch, installing the site, checking that every… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Site packages for learners What a learner needs to know about site packages - what the installer installs, the default sevenx_multisite with its two demo websites, the clean variant without demo content, the CJW starter site, how to choose one… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Resetting and rebuilding your study site How a learner saves a study site before a risky exercise and starts over afterwards - a backup of the SQLite database and the files, a restore, a fresh install with exp:install --force, a dry run first, keeping your own… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Sharing one study site with a class For study groups and classes that share one Exponential installation - why one installation per learner is safer, how to share well when you must (accounts per learner, limited roles, demo mode when everyone is an… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Your first hour in the administration A guided first hour on your study site's administration - signing in, the header, the left and right columns, the dashboard, an item's page, a first edit and publish, the versions, the help, and signing out - each with… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Understanding the content model An explanation of Exponential's content model for learners - content classes, attributes and datatypes, objects, versions and translations, nodes and the content tree, sections and object states - with a worked example… Students and learners Learning Exponential
Understanding siteaccesses and settings An explanation for learners of siteaccesses (site, admin, editor and others) and INI settings - what a siteaccess is, the settings files and their .ini.append.php overrides, the order in which scopes win, how to ask the… Students and learners Learning Exponential

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