I agree with all of these and I‘ve been teaching web development to total beginners.
The MDN guides give you a much better template. They focus more on the fundamentals, starting with HTML.
The first thing I do after a short intro and overview is writing a Hello World HTML page with them while saying something about each line.
When they open the page in their browser you can see something in their eyes, which is magical. They just made their first web page!
Also I focus much more on HTML and CSS than on JS. There’s so much to learn just with that, while JS should be used when needed, little snippets for interactivity.
The MDN guides give you a much better template. They focus more on the fundamentals, starting with HTML.
The first thing I do after a short intro and overview is writing a Hello World HTML page with them while saying something about each line.
When they open the page in their browser you can see something in their eyes, which is magical. They just made their first web page!
Also I focus much more on HTML and CSS than on JS. There’s so much to learn just with that, while JS should be used when needed, little snippets for interactivity.