Ok question about HTML

[SamSpade]

I honest to God have had no need whatsoever to specifically type in HTML tags. I don't know anyone who does - if I make a web page, I use whatever tool I need to visually create it - and that's it. I haven't needed to do it in 25 years.

My 8th grade daughter however - they're teaching all that stuff to her in class. A computing class, and they're covering HTML.

Somebody tell me they actually use all the tags and create their pages the hard way.

 

[Clem72]

I honest to God have had no need whatsoever to specifically type in HTML tags. I don't know anyone who does - if I make a web page, I use whatever tool I need to visually create it - and that's it. I haven't needed to do it in 25 years.

My 8th grade daughter however - they're teaching all that stuff to her in class. A computing class, and they're covering HTML.

Somebody tell me they actually use all the tags and create their pages the hard way.

I guess whether or not this is a "good" method to teach depends on if you believe it's important to learn theory and understand the mechanics of how something works.

They still teach assembly languages in most CS courses, though 90+ percent of students will likely never use it.

If all they taught was how to use whatever web-design tool is most popular today, will the student actually learn anything? Will the skills translate to anything meaningful once that tool is no longer in use?

Would you consider for hire someone who is an expert in using the Geocities website builder over someone who could cobble together a basic functioning website in notepad using HTML?

 

[vraiblonde]

You have a dishwasher, but it's still good to know how to wash by hand. You have a translator app but it's not the same as being able to speak a foreign language.

I use html frequently when the dummy program won't do what I want it to, or when something goes screwy and I have to fix it manually, or other assorted reasons. It's never a bad idea to learn to hand code.

David started me off hand coding, and when I got good at it he bought me a copy of FrontPage. I was like, WTH???

 

[jrt_ms1995]

I honest to God have had no need whatsoever to specifically type in HTML tags. I don't know anyone who does - if I make a web page, I use whatever tool I need to visually create it - and that's it. I haven't needed to do it in 25 years.

My 8th grade daughter however - they're teaching all that stuff to her in class. A computing class, and they're covering HTML.

Somebody tell me they actually use all the tags and create their pages the hard way.

I have, but it was some time (25 years?) ago. I, however, am glad they're actually teaching HTML rather than just how to use someone's site building front end.

 

[SamSpade]

I guess. My daughter can be a smartass, and is whining that her presumably brilliant father doesn’t know all the answers. So therefore - I don’t know ANYTHING.

But I guess part of me views a markup language like editing a Word document by looking at the underlying text. Which I also haven’t done in years.

 

[DaSDGuy]

Not sayin' I'm old or anything, but I still remember using WordPerfect for DOS while showing control codes.

 

[Merlin99]

Not sayin' I'm old or anything, but I still remember using WordPerfect for DOS while showing control codes.

WordPerfect was our go to word processor and lotus 123 for spreadsheets.

 

[Gilligan]

The "nodes" in our distributed marine control systems are "web enabled" with an embedded interface app for tuning and troubleshooting the devices with only a laptop, Exporer, and an ethernet cable. SGI writes the HTML for all that.

That said, we've just transitioned to our "next gen" control solution and its a COTS system from National Instruments. Different way to access the various system elements and no more HTML coding for SGI. End of an error...er...era...