im not sure where to put feedback about courses on laracast. So i will do it here may some one else has an idea how to solve my problem.
Atm im watching the "Laravel from scratch" course but im not fine with it because you learn that much in this course but you never build smt usefull within this course to practice what you have been learned. So it ends with the problem that i allready forgot about stuff that i learned a few videos before?
May some one has a tipp how to handle this problem in a better way, because it slowly fucks me up :D. Atm it seems to me like i have to learn the whole php and laravel world to just build a small website. Back when i learned Angular and JS it was hard to learn this stuff too but compared to angular the time you need to build the first application/ website are ages. May im doin smt wrong but atm im feeling a bit pointless about learning all this stuff in just over dry theory.
What I did when I started learning Laravel was to watch all the tutorials once without doing any code and then watch them again and code along.
You should always code along at least once.
The from scratch videos covers most basics so a couple of times through them and then on to one of the larger courses where you get to see most of the stuff in a real application.
I am also following the 'Laravel from scratch' series as a beginner. My experience so far has been really good to be honest. Adding to what the others have said, what I do is take my time. Pause the video and think about what you are doing if necessary. Take the time to reflect on the video before moving on to the next. Take a note or make some comments if that helps. When you finish for the day take a minute to think 'what did I learn today'.
I looked ahead and saw that a course that is recommended to follow after this one, is building a full project. It looks really interesting.
Here is an older Archive series from Jeff. Some things have changed since then, however it might be useful to just watch along and understand how the fundamental courses are put into plan with a project.
