Hi.
I wanted to read this book https://www.amazon.com/Moodle-Extension-Development-Jonathan-Moore-ebook/dp/B0058O84U6 for learning how to create blocks, plugins and other stuffs.
( I know that a new book is published but I can't afford it right now )
But the problem is that it is for version 1.9 and we are on version 3.3.
How much Moodle backend has been changed since then? Can I still read and learn from it?
Hi Mohammad,
If you contribute to Moodle development, I will send you a copy of my book for free.
cheers,
Tomek
Sure I want to learn and contribute, but I am beginner in Moodle. What should I do to satisfy you?
There are various ways to contribute - some ideas are on https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Contributing_to_Moodle .
For the dev resources, start with an excellent post by Michael.
Thanks for helps. I will try for it.
There is a lot of "how to" information available in Moodle if you go read through the Development documentation. I suggest you might start with developing a simple HTML block as described here: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Blocks
There's been a few suggestions of other resources to look at, but just to give a clear answer to your original question:
A lot has changed since Moodle 1.9. The 2.0 release brought in a lot of changes to the APIs which you would use for writing plugins, so the information in that book is likely to be out-of-date in a lot of key areas.
Hi Mohammad -
I'm one of the authors of the book you are referencing. If you are trying to learn Moodle development as a new Moodle developer, and you are starting with 3.3, I think it would be best to skip this book. Most of the content is outdated and doesn't reflect the current state of the Moodle internals and API's. That said, it can certainly help you understand the basic structures of Moodle and how it all works together, giving you a good overview understanding of how things work. But when you go to build any of the specific plugins, you will need more up to date information than you will find in there.
There are many new resources and I can see that others have pointed you in good directions.
Good luck and have fun developing.
mike
Hi.
Thanks too much for reply and also the book.
OK, so I am moving on and I am going to use other resources and maybe trying the new book.