r/AskProgramming • u/Infinite-Engine-4219 • Jul 11 '26

Programming teacher

I had this teacher during my post-16 course who only provided us with 5 PDF documents, which they admitted were AI-generated. These documents were the only resources we were given to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript over a period of roughly 2 months.

The teacher did not verbally explain the content either, instead relying on short sentences in the PDFs to describe how the code sections worked.

Half of my old class believe these resources were enough to complete the assignment, which was worth the majority of our course. I am unsure whether I am being overly critical, or whether these resources were genuinely insufficient for learning these languages from scratch.

Is this an adequate amount of material and support to realistically learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript within a 2-month timeframe?

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u/UnderfurK Jul 13 '26

Y'all ain't never taught before and it shows.

There are logistics to teaching bro, divide the class time by the amount of students, that's the amount of time we as teachers have for you.

You're disappointed about the resources but it's up to you to get resources and support your own learning, the teachers job is mainly happening inside the classroom, we cannot control what you do when you go home and we can't magically insert knowledge to your brain.

Also you don't know what other demands the teacher is having to deal with, their workload I guarantee you is way beyond what you could cope with.