…is hard.<\/p>\n
A major project I’m doing right now at work involves teaching HTML\/CSS and (and probably Javascript) to an audience of mixed knowledge-levels.<\/p>\n
Now, I’ve got a lot of experience explaining things in context and answering questions for people of different levels of computer literacy. And I used to tutor students in Math, Science, English and other languages, and I taught Art privately for awhile. So no problem, right?<\/p>\n
Trying to condense an entire introductory class into a couple hours and make it both appropriate AND useful to all different skill levels and then use it to contrast against the html\/css\/javascript being written by a tool provided by a vendor? Ouch.<\/p>\n
I’m thinking that it might be best approached as exactly what it is: a foreign language. It has its own alphabet. Its words are elements, and it most definitely has its own rules of grammar. The doctype tells a browser what dialect you’re speaking in (html and xhtml are about as different as American and Britsh English, for instance).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…is hard. A major project I’m doing right now at work involves teaching HTML\/CSS and (and probably Javascript) to an audience of mixed knowledge-levels. Now, I’ve got a lot of experience explaining things in context and answering questions for people … Continue reading