The thing is, that part of the planned course was to develop a small framework, so that they could see the dynamic and OOP posibilities that PHP offers. With PHP 5.3, there are namespaces, which change a lot the design of a framework, as well as true lambdas with closures. So, naturally, the architecture of this minimalistic framework changes and I have plans to write it before the course starts.
Why a framework? If you know how an MVC framework is created and how it works, you will most likely get into Zend Framework or CakePHP much faster. Plus, it's a very good way to learn the language. It wouldn't be the first one I've written, so it's not much trouble. That's why I care about PHP 5.3. Now imagine if there were Traits! Anyway, I think I will do as someone mentioned, and teach them 5.2 during the entire course and then at the end show them some of 5.3. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Per Jessen <p...@computer.org> To: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:12:55 +0200 Subject: Re: [PHP] I've some doubts if I should go with 5.2 or go already with 5.3 (for a course) Manuel Aude wrote: > I'm giving a PHP course next semester (3 hours all saturdays for 22 > weeks) and I just realized that PHP 5.3 is coming very soon (2 days > now!). So, my plans of teaching PHP 5.2 are starting to change, and I > think it's a good idea to teach them 5.3 already. Does it _really_ matter which one? I can't imagine there are that many revolutionary changes in a dot-release.
