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My friend told me to skip learning HTML and just focus on Python
He said it was old and not needed for real coding. I tried it for about a week, but every single beginner project I found online needed at least basic HTML to build anything you could see. I got stuck trying to make a simple website and had to go back to learn it anyway. Has anyone else gotten advice that just made things harder at the start?
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wesley_adams2mo ago
Honestly that advice set you up to fail.
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miles_garcia2mo ago
Yeah, that's some rough advice to get early on. Read a blog post once where the guy called HTML the "skeleton" of the web. You can't have a body without bones. Python is more like the muscles that make it move, but you still need the bones to hold it together. Trying to skip it just means you'll run into a wall later, exactly like you did.
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val_williams2mo ago
Bad advice, honestly. HTML is how you put stuff on a web page. Python can do the logic behind it, but if you want to show a button or a form, you need HTML. Trying to build a web app without it is like trying to build a house but skipping how to make a wall. You'll always hit a point where you need it.
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