It's not really arguable - HTML is not programming, it's markup. But the point is not to make someone employable as a "hot-shot startup whizz"; just to teach t

It's not really arguable - HTML is not programming, it's markup. But the point is not to make someone employable as a "hot-shot startup whizz"; just to teach them some basics so they can communicate with devs as equals. And anyway, it would be worrying if just taking a few coding lessons would qualify someone to be employable as a programmer at all :)