On Laracasts tutorials

the teacher doesn't explain fundamentals of the language very well

compared to someone else? or you just know that he does not explain fundamentals very well?

I believe that is an older series that will be archived in the near-ish future. You may want to try Object Oriented Principals . This goes through the constructs of the language (so far) and I think will be replacing the series you're watching. As far as why he programs the way he does, Design Patterns in PHP is a good series discussing the different patterns and their benefits.

However, keep in my that learning anything is a process! It might also take some work on your part to do the research. If you see something you don't understand, Google it, and if that doesn't produce a result, head back here to the forums or to stack overflow and ask a question about the specific thing you don't understand. That way people can give you a more informed, less subjective answer to the specific thing you're needing help with as opposed to "do the lessons improve". Lots of people are on the site, watching the lessons and participating in discussion, so in many people's opinion, the lessons must be good. :)

Most likely you are very new to programming, Laracasts is more on practical learning, you will not able to find any powerpoint slide or any graph to explain the theory or the basic fundamental usage in Laracasts. However, you can easily find the php fundamental lessons in youtube or simply read the documentation from php.net or even https://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp.