Very, very dissapointing course

I agree with the OP, there are better courses on YouTube. The whole point of paying for Treehouse is the interactivity. Having done some of the phenomenal HTML/CSS courses and then having come here, it's hard to believe the same company produced both.

Not enough real life examples. A realistic mini project which we all could refer to would help!

Treehouse has always been, and probably will be, the place for beginners to get introduced to a concept. You wont be a master of OOP after one video series no matter what site you use. Ive watched these videos, as well as the Object Oriented Bootcamp from Laracasts, and both gave me great insight to PHP and OOP. But what really got me going was building sites. Thats the thing with all of these sites. You can learn alot, but if you arent practicing outside of the videos, you wont learn anything.

Which makes me want to ask, what are you doing outside of Teamtreehouse.com to learn PHP and OOP?

I'd have to agree that it is a little disappointing. I would have liked them to go into more detail on the videos rather than referring you to php.net to read. One main reason I love treehouse is so that I can learn from watching videos. It helps when things are verbally expressed and used in live examples that I can see. I just feel that they could have maybe used more examples and given more explanation of when some of the concepts are used in real life programming situations. I watched the OO JavaScript course before and thought that it was done much better.

I want to know why he holds a candle through out the whole course? lol.

Usually I use Treehouse to Introduce to topics. As they suggest, after videos, I usually practice by myself with Php Cookbook 3rd edition and so on.

You can't expect to learn everything in 4-5 video. You need to "learn to learn". I think that's what Treehouse wants to do.

As a computer science student, my teachers did same to us. You can't become full stack developer by watching some videos on the internet. You need to do it yourself, however Treehouse provides good start-up, I think. Thanks.

I completely agree. I have taked many courses on Treehouse and I must say that this course is the worst. Teacher suppose's we know all these concepts and skips the first steps. Especially the third part is so difficult to understand and follow.

Have to disagree... I think he's done a great job of putting across the basics in a very short and compact way. There's enough there to light the fuse as it were or certainly has been in my case. Would much rather have something this short that gives you the foundations than three hours of lectures that go into interminable detail, much of which you might not need more than once.

I believe this is a very short and basic course as the title says. I do like these kind of short videos and then I can brush up or learn more using real world practice.

Very disappointing indeed

I have learned about constructs and a little deeper into class inheritance etc, but really it will only sink in with examples. This is where "project tutorials" and "your own projects/trying it out yourself" comes in.

I'm on the fence whether this course gave enough quality learning (there was content, but what about learning style?). At best it is a video I would refer back to if I hadn't played with inheritance for a while.

I think when I use use my own data / from mysql db or from user forms on my site or whatever... and then use that with OOP, only then will it start to click.

I agree. Though the videos are short which is great but they should pack a lot of explanation into these short videos so that you can better understand these topics. So, it will be better if they provide short videos with well-explained topics. And also, provide certifications with it, because what's the point of spending time and money to learn all these topics without certification?

Learning about anything requires work. I find this to be a great introduction that moves at a rapid pace requiring you, the student, to figure out and implement uses for the code on your own.

Also I guess this would make a bit more sense if you were to refer back to it after a couple of weeks using something like laravel route constructors / model classes etc etc

100% agree. jumps all over the place. lacks continuity. takes a bit to adjust to material being that it doesn't always piggy back on what you just learned previously.

I disagree. I liked it. What I enjoyed was seeing how classes, methods, and inheritance work in PHP after coming from JavaScript. OOP as a concept makes a lot more sense than it did before. This is definitely more of a basics course, as it says, but it's really just giving an overview of PHP OOP. From what I understand, PHP is really just the display language for a backend database. Learning PHP is just one part of putting it to use.