Opinions on using CI to teach a PHP 'newb'

[eluser]Lone[/eluser]
Thanks fro the link Michael - great to see Derek thinking along the same lines as well.

The basic syntax certainly needs to be done first, but I was thinking you can pretty just just make a sample controller/view to test this out with them as well - but maybe just a single page would be best for a quick start.

Very true about using the php.net documentation - a lot of the comments are often quite handy on there as well.