HTML+CSS. It's middle school. You get a syntax error, JavaScript breaks. Beginners hate syntax errors, won't read/understand the error messages. If any JavaScript, just inline onclick handlers or one-liners. HTML and CSS are very forgiving and browser tools make instant changes. Make the advanced kids do stuff with keyframes, responsive design. Although, I've seen a lot of people fail miserably at teaching HTML because they get into stuff that doesn't apply to the experience of coding, like HTML5 element categorization. Skip over that nonsense and go 100% hands on. For an IDE, notepad++ would work, nothing more than syntax highlighting.
Don't make them carry around a USB key, they just lose/forget them. Too bad there aren't any geocities/angelfire sites around.
JavaScript in the followup course, big focus on reading error messages, Googling. A good IDE would be the key, so identifies errors before they "go to all the trouble" of opening it in a browser tab.
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HTML+CSS. It's middle school. You get a syntax error, JavaScript breaks. Beginners hate syntax errors, won't read/understand the error messages. If any JavaScript, just inline onclick handlers or one-liners. HTML and CSS are very forgiving and browser tools make instant changes. Make the advanced kids do stuff with keyframes, responsive design. Although, I've seen a lot of people fail miserably at teaching HTML because they get into stuff that doesn't apply to the experience of coding, like HTML5 element categorization. Skip over that nonsense and go 100% hands on. For an IDE, notepad++ would work, nothing more than syntax highlighting.
Don't make them carry around a USB key, they just lose/forget them. Too bad there aren't any geocities/angelfire sites around.
JavaScript in the followup course, big focus on reading error messages, Googling. A good IDE would be the key, so identifies errors before they "go to all the trouble" of opening it in a browser tab.