- Part of learning HTML is learning the patience to parse through text files full of markup and code.
- Additionally, HTML requires a good bit of code before you have anything worth looking at, which can be very frustrating and confusing.
- Assigning small changes gives students the chance to see how aspects of HTML work and figure out the syntax.
- In contrast, a project where they have to type a lot of code often overwhelms students and they get extremely confused by syntax.
- By giving students a pre-written HTML document, they get use to reading code, understanding the syntax, and parsing their way through documents.