Too many mistakes in this course!

You raise a good point here. We had actually received guidance internally that they wanted our courses to appear more "real" so that students could see us go about troubleshooting and showing the natural process of coding. I feel what you mean though about the benefits of having a completely polished course with no mistakes.

Another mistake in portfolio single page

5:12 min

The endwhile before the the endif doesnt require parentheses before the comma.

In the video:

php enwhile(); endif; =>> error

In reality:

php endwhile; endif =>> success

. if you put the parenthesis, you will get an error but in the video it seems to work just fine and that baffles me. Could anybody please check those videos before you upload them? Thanks .

It's feedback, that's all I'm providing. Smart business practice is to take customers feedback onboard and continue to improve the way they do things, which is what I hope Treehouse does with this course.

I agree with phillip parker. I am a beginner/intermediate html,css and php develloper and i find it frustrating that i have to figure out what went wrong in my code when i have checked and rechecked the code given in the video and can't seem to find my mistake.

For example, when we are instructed to create the left-sidebar.php , there is a div missing in the coding video. How did i notice it? i have watched the video many times over thinking that i somehow made a mistake and that was the reason my sidebar wasn't showing up properly. But in fact after looking at MY code which was the same as the video , it was clear that something was wrong. I added the div and things worked out fine. But i wasted 45 minutes to figure it out.

Again, as i am writing this , i am watching the portfolio single page tutorial. At 3:40 minutes in the video , you will see the code written by the instructor. There is a div missing at the bottom.

1 sections opens up 4 divs open up; 2 divs closed; 2 divs open up; 2 divs close Then you should have 2 closing divs at the end and a closing section tag but we can see that there is a div missing.

also, the instructor tells us that the code "php endif" needs to be written at the end of the Row div. but in the video , the instructor is clearly shown pasting the code just before the closing tag div of the " small-12-column" div.

Now because i know this , if my page doesn't display correctly, at least i know that i can go back to my code and change the divs around and fix a potential problem. But if somebody doesn't notice those mistakes then they may end up frustrated , angry and desperate because they cant't figure out what went wrong.

I undestand that the isntructors want us to see what it is like to code "live" but maybe they should put a disclaimer at the beginning of the video saying that this video contains some mistakes and students should try to find them and fix them before the teacher does it himself in the next videos.

I rather see those errors while learning than getting them and waste time trying to figure out what is going on...

Not just to many error but where is the support? I cannot make this single page to work and other people with similar problem that I am encountering ask the same questions 2 months ago!!!

Don't blame Zac, blame whoever developed the HTML prototype. I reckon the mistakes through out this course are because of the scappy, messy nature of the prototype HTML being used.