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Start programming courses with HTML to get students to engage with programming languages by building off of their pre-existing, experiential curiosity.

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  • Students often have a lot of experience using websites and you can capitalize on students’ interest.
    • It is important to connect programming with students’ everyday experience!

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  • Intro Programming
  • Development Methods
  • HTML
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