But being able to program, and being able to program well are two different things. And even if they become an expert programmer, doesn't mean that they will know how to use it properly.
Someone had to design those Javascript butterflies that follow my cursor around.
And seriously. HTML is not hard at all to learn. Or at least not so hard to learn to be able to put up a web page.
As much as I'd like to believe that learning to code HTML will somehow improve the quality of websites, I know this to be false. Take a look at the old geocities, tripod and angelfire pages. True, many of them were made with the integrated editor, but there are as equally many that were hard coded.
Basically knowing how to write and knowing what to write is not a one-to-one relationship.
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Perhaps.
But being able to program, and being able to program well are two different things. And even if they become an expert programmer, doesn't mean that they will know how to use it properly.
Someone had to design those Javascript butterflies that follow my cursor around.
And seriously. HTML is not hard at all to learn. Or at least not so hard to learn to be able to put up a web page.
As much as I'd like to believe that learning to code HTML will somehow improve the quality of websites, I know this to be false. Take a look at the old geocities, tripod and angelfire pages. True, many of them were made with the integrated editor, but there are as equally many that were hard coded.
Basically knowing how to write and knowing what to write is not a one-to-one relationship.