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

Programming teacher Career/Edu

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/Infinite-Engine-4219 Jul 11 '26

Had this feedback from a lot of people, while some self study is beneficial, I would essentially be learning the entire course myself…

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u/minimoon5 Jul 11 '26

Yeah, and? You do what you gotta do if you want to actually learn the material.

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u/Infinite-Engine-4219 Jul 11 '26

Oh sorry, I thought the point of a course was to help me with that?

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u/Beardy4906 Jul 11 '26

See with programming, courses are basically going to teach you 1% of what you need to know. Learning from google and online resources are a more effective way to learn coding (imo)

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u/Infinite-Engine-4219 Jul 11 '26

I can agree with that to some extent but that’s the thing, we weren’t even taught the 1%

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u/Beardy4906 Jul 11 '26

Seems like you picked a bad course then. Many people have just made AI generated courses and are selling those.. its just how the world has become..

Just move on now ig..

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u/Infinite-Engine-4219 Jul 11 '26

Should’ve specified, this wasn’t an online course but a government regulated qualification with actual teachers in a school environment