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Bad Habits

Bad habits are the habits that people have fallen in to that hinder progress in advancing the task of teaching Web design. They are ways in which people teaching Web design obstruct their own advancement toward better pedagogy.

Bad habits are easy to fall into, and with a little effort, easy to break out of. Bad habits are why we enforce structured programming and object-oriented programming from day one in other programming fields. Although it is easy to break a bad habit, it is hard to unlearn it, because one first has to see that it is wrong, then the value of correcting it before change can be effected.

We no more want to teach our students bad habits in Web design than we want to teach them that unstructured code and an over-reliance on goto statements are a good thing. So then, why do we?

Our Bad Habits

• [The renaissance of spaghetti code.]
• [But this is how I learned it.]
• [The security of the known.]
• [Pedagogy as historical reenactment of pedagogy.]
• [Convenient shortcuts and taking the easy way out.]
• [Over-reliance on the text.]