As a college student currently enrolled in an introductory java course, what I found particularly interesting was the initial teaching of really basic HTML and its tags to introduce the idea that programs need to follow a rigid syntax for them to function. Although I already had previous knowledge in Java and understood this, the rest of the class seemed to benefit from the way that the class was introduced. Regardless of the language, the professor can then go into basic programs for the target language (Java, HTML, Ruby, etc.) and build from there.
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As a college student currently enrolled in an introductory java course, what I found particularly interesting was the initial teaching of really basic HTML and its tags to introduce the idea that programs need to follow a rigid syntax for them to function. Although I already had previous knowledge in Java and understood this, the rest of the class seemed to benefit from the way that the class was introduced. Regardless of the language, the professor can then go into basic programs for the target language (Java, HTML, Ruby, etc.) and build from there.