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Why? For beginners web technologies are perfect. you can have results like a first static page within the first day and from that point go on to eventually build complex web apps. and all that with the same tools and languages. you will not be a programmer at first, but you might become one.

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I think it's a great entry point. HTML/CSS is a very low entry bar to be introduced on how to talk to a computer. Of course it's not "programming" and very little logic, but it can show people one very important thing:

"See look, it's not so hard to talk to a computer. Those words on TV aren't all gibberish."

It's not like it teaches bad practices like a number of other "entry level" languages do. I'm sure the majority of people in my generation (late 20's, early 30's) started with HTML/CSS when they were kids.

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