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Notes on Teaching HTML and CSS

Kids

  • need to know the why of HTML: why does it need to be code to be a website?
  • browser isn't as smart as a human: has no eyes or brain
  • example of short story written in word processor: ask kids where each paragraph starts and ends and how they can tell
  • explain that browser doesn't see the indent at the beginning or the line break at the end, so we have to be specific about where the boundaries are
  • introduce tags: compare story in word processor to same story in HTML

Adults

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