I taught web development to multiple people, some of them now working as web developer. I still teach it almost exactly like I have been taught about 15 years a

I taught web development to multiple people, some of them now working as web developer. I still teach it almost exactly like I have been taught about 15 years ago my self. In my opinion it works great: 1. using a simple text editor learn writing some basic (semantic) HTML and view in in the browser. At this point you do not think to much about all the fancy websites out there but just see it as an geeky alternative to a word processor (headlins, paragraphs, lists, images[and their path resolution]... no input fields yet) and get familiar with the notion that the computer can understand the plain text you write and display it as a formatted document. 2. introduce css as a way of adding visual effects to your elements. Start with font-size, color, backgrounds. Start with simple element selectors, then add class selectors. Contrast selectors vs inline styles. The learning person will have a lot of own creative ideas and will ask "how to do this and that?". Gradually only introduce additional selectors and properties if needed. Once you get into css3 territory tell a bit about the history of web browsers and how difference browsers support different properties. 3. introduce vanilla javascript. After the basic control flow concepts (variable, functions, if/else) are clear start with simple event handlers for button clicks. One step at a time disclose useful DOM apis (el.style, el.classList, el.querySelector) Notice how up to this point no knowledge of network protocols is needed. Except the interactivity provided javascript everything could as well be done in photoshop/word/illustrator. So learning all this is no different then learning using any other application, just a bit more geeky. The adventage of doing it that way is that you can introduce each new topic with the actually motivation for which the technology had been invented. 4. Once there is a solid understanding of html/css/js I would introduce the concept of a web server (constrasting it with the local file system) by just taking it as given that you can upload files via ftp/ssh into a folder on another computer that is linked to a domain (for now it does not matter how dns,ftp/ssh,apache/nginx... work. --- I spend much time listening to lectures (on youtube and even live in university) about topics I already know about. I enjoy how different people explain things in a different way. And I have much fun explaining things I am interested in to try how fast other people grasp the concepts. On importent impression I got is, that's sooo much easier to understand - as well as to explain - concepts in the order and context in which they were historically developed. This got especially clear to me after taking various courses on set theory, logic, computability and turing machines provided by the philosophy department after I already finished a bachelor in computer science. The philosophers focused on "How did turing come with his ideas in the context of his time" while in the CS courses that question is almost skipped.