Using a web editor as a development platform for teaching HTML and client-side programming in the internet 101 course: nifty tools and assignments
2008; Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges; Volume: 24; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1937-4771
Autores Tópico(s)Teaching and Learning Programming
ResumoTraditionally most courses teaching beginning website development have students using a text editor to native HTML. This works fine for a website with a few simple pages, but once a website begins to grow this is a cumbersome and time-consuming method. A much more efficient method is to use a web editor as the development platform for such mundane tasks as file management, establishing colors (versus looking up hex codes), finding the coordinates for image maps, etc. Since web editors code for students, some course designers have avoided them due to worries of students learning how to a web editor but not learning how to write the it is generating. By using two textbooks-one for the web editor, and one for HTML and it's supporting technologies of scripting and style sheets-the students can learn the best of both worlds. This is analogous to using a calculator for math or a rapid application development tool for programming. In fact, the web editor can actually be used as a learning tool for HTML. If the student is unsure of the then he/she can perform the task in the web editor and then observe the that was written. This method of learning has been used quite successfully and I believe an explanation and demonstration of it would give conference attendees a useful strategy for teaching website development.
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