Thanks for writing the book! I’m glad I came across it while learning how to make a website.
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I try not to get overly-annoyed at this kind of thing too, but to me it just demonstrates an incredible lack of self-drive, or curiosity, especially in the CS domain. If the students are genuinely curious, there is nothing to stop them learning about pretty much any topic in CS - really. There are few university subjects where the entire syllabus is freely available online in almost every format imaginable the way CS…
To keep that line of reasoning going, what is the purpose of the university, if you're supposed to learn everything on your own?
Not everything, but university is a big shift towards self directed learning.
Lack of understanding coming into the courses causes issues, when I started we had to delay things because some students hadn't encountered matrixes and the maths around them.
So sure, they can teach these things but it adds to what they already are trying to teach. A lowered base means less of the advanced content can be taught.
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Hyperbole. It wouldn't "break" all the web pages, they would simply render differently.
There's a lot of sites between pure html and modern css. "Simply" rendering things differently would definitely break a lot of sites. Just imagine if browsers started defaulting to *{box-sizing: border-box;}.
I applied it to my site for a minute. Didn't break a thing. Just noticed a slight indent to a few things.