Installing Drupal

I am an absolute beginner on Drupal, and am using the book Drupal 8 for Absolute Beginners in order to learn. Chapter 1 of the book, "Installing Drupal," uses Acquia to install Drupal. I attempted to do this and failed; the installation logs claimed that Acquia was not compatible with my version of Windows (I am using Windows 7, which is supposed to be supported). Instead, I am attempting to follow the installation steps as described in the book's appendix, "Installing Drupal with XAMPP on a Windows Machine." 

Hi,

I need a basic Drupal (8), without too many modules, only basic ones: pathauto, token, redirect etc. and possibly webform.

Do I need to install drupal with composer?

I searched for documentation, but installing Drupal with composer does not seem easy.

Is it necessary or can i install Drupal 8 manually as Drupal 7 without problem?

Thanks in advance

My project, on my local development box, is a drupal 8.6.4 site created with the drupal-composer/drupal-project template.  I have commited  it to a local git repository and pushed it up to github.  This is an incomplete version of my site as it does not contain core and cannot be used as is to clone a new site.  The tutorials on creating a cloned site use a two-repository approach: git drupal and git project.  The git drupal creates an installation with an architecture that differs from the drupal-composer architecture - it does not have the /web subdirectory.  So far my google searches hav

Bonjour,

Est ce que vous connaissez un livre sur la programmation de Drupal ?

Est ce que vous connaissez un site internet sur la programmation de Drupal ?

Merci.

Cordialement.

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