Laravel Course is crap.

I feel your frustration. That's an unfortunate side affect of developing on Windows. An easy way around that is to use a free account on Cloud9. You'll get an ubuntu box you can use to develop in. The commands will work as you'd expect.

Actually, my first laravel experience was about 2 years ago, all on windows... For the last half year, i work on a mac, because of lot's of courses being written for mac.

But to be honest, once you got your environment set up, the differences aren't that big. Just try to get through the first days, and you'll be fine. Laravel is the same for both OS's, it's the installation that can make it hard. If you need some help, leave me a msg!

You have to install the laravel 4 to follow a long.

Laravel 5 and 5.1. Today 5.2 came out so the code has changed. You have to read documentation to code it. Make sure you install the correct installation.

In addition, it's bit more difficult on windows. localhost/public that's the director of the index file. It's best to follow a long with mac or linux box.

https://youtu.be/JHE7ZsVRc_U this guy teaches you how to install laravel.

Have xampp installed. That is your lamp stack. Commands for windows

composer create-project laravel/laravel {directory} 4.2 --prefer-dist
composer install

It's bit tougher but it can be done.

http://laravel.com/docs/4.2

To follow along with treehouse tutorial. Goodluck. You can do it.

Hi Tommy, if you're looking for in-depth courses specializing in Laravel, I would have to recommend www.laracasts.com. It basically costs $9 per month (as of today). And it`s regularly updated; their courses on Laravel cannot be compared to any other training site offering more general courses, for the meantime, at least.

TeamTreehouse is great if you're looking to be a well-rounded full-stack developer as they cover everything a web developer needs to know, and more. I'd say they do well for Android and iOS mobile development as well. :-)

Best wishes.