My business depends on training students and beginners on Drupal, and within weeks turning them into productive Drupal developers. Over the years, I have gone through this process dozens of times, and have identified the key skills that make the difference between success and failure in learning Drupal.

The topics will include:

Motivation: Why you should learn Drupal?
Philosophical background: How to think like a developer?
What to expect as a Drupal developer, themer or site-builder?
How to be productive in Linux: command line, editors, grep/find, etc.
SSH: ssh-keys, scp/sftp, rsync, port forwarding/tunneling
HTML, CSS, LESS/SASS
JavaScript: jQuery
Development Tools: Chrome, NetBeans, HeidiSQL, Git
Next steps: Where to start learning Drupal development.
You can see the presentation slides and other resources here.

Learn more: http://drupalcampatlanta.com/2016/sessions/drupal-pre-reqs-what-you-need-know-you-start-learning-drupal