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This will only teach them how ugly hacks were made, not how proper software should be.

Even now, when we have strict HTML and CSS2 and some decent browsers, I still get chills sometimes at how fugly this whole "web-development" is... These "technologies" weren't meant to be what we use them for.

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Yes, but the idea seems to be to introduce them to programming concepts: variables, if/else, do/while, etc. The advantage of HTML and javascript is that it's very easy to see how a button click causes some logic to execute. It also shows them that programming can be done in a simple text editor using only tools you already have at your disposal, by virtue of having nothing but a computer.

It's not. Not easy - have you done anything else besides web development? VB6 is a far better tool for what you are saying.

Just because 99% of people here dream of becoming .com-millionaires doesn't automatically turn these fashionable "technologies" a best way to introduce a kid to programming.

The absurdity of misused web "apps" for commercial purposes is one thing (especially if you get paid at the end), but fucking up someone's education is just cruel.

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