Comments on: From the Teaching Trenches: Hardcoding is Harder, but Results are Worth It http://www.ojr.org/050113niles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=050113niles Focusing on the future of digital journalism Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Travis Smith http://www.ojr.org/050113niles/#comment-15 Travis Smith Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:42:07 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=2114#comment-15 While knowing HTML code is useful today, we’re not that far from an era where it won’t be.

How many paginators can read and write postscript, or untangle a PDF document using BBEdit? Virtually none. Software provides an abstratction layer and allows them to spend their time on the presentation, not nitpicking the code.

From my perspective, and speaking on behalf of my students as well, that day can’t arrive soon enough.

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]]> By: Diana Day http://www.ojr.org/050113niles/#comment-12 Diana Day Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:47:20 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=2114#comment-12 As a former technology educator and a current journalism student, I agree with Niles’ points. And, I have been wondering recently whether it would be worthwhile to use Dreamweaver’s “Code and Design” view to teach HTML and Dreamweaver hand-in-hand? Does anyone have experience with this?

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