Hi Mihaela,
I go through this often. What follows is *not* meant to be harsh, but
it is how I distill these thoughts in my own head. And, I talk to
myself a lot, so I have been round-and-round this loop a few times.
Last time, I won the argument, which was a refreshing change.
(o_0)
Humor aside,
The choice between stitching together a system without using a development
framework is, primarily, dictated by my lack of familiarity with the framework.
Learning outcomes are the same in both cases, plain PHP/MySQL vs Drupal-based
coding. The nature of the activities does not change. Students
