I just started working this week as the student Drupal web tech, helping UA faculty with their Drupal websites through The Office of Instruction and Assessment. (I'm experienced in some web dev but new at Drupal, learning fast thanks to tutorials and now this class.) I really like Drupal because it lets users be responsible for so much on their own sites. I also like that I can do advanced web development that I never mastered the code/coding languages for.
On the other hand, as a site administrator I will sometimes want to work in code. I am working on Views right now for one site and it is a little frustrating to try to figure out why my displays show up with no records in them. When I'm looking at a block of code I can eventually see what's missing. But with Drupal's GUI there are so many different screens and menus that pop up and disappear, it can be hard to troubleshoot. (I'm going to be going through http://drupal.org/node/272912, working on Views in code, next time I'm on the clock.)
If we were already working on Views in IRLS 675 I would probably ask for more specific advice in the forum, though since these are live sites belonging to UA folks I guess I'd be careful not to reveal too much, for both security purposes and because word gets around in small communities. Nonetheless, I may be asking for the 675 forum's assistance sometimes. And I'll be sharing some of our class resources on our webdev blog, http://blog.ltc.arizona.edu/productionservices/2010/09/drupal-taxonomy-plus-smooth-ja.html.
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