Good Morning! Here is my problem. Im at college this year, preparing for University (Hopefully Birmingham) to study Software Engineering. At college we have a class on a Thursday called "Web Development" and the guy thats teaching the class in an absolute joke, no seriously, he is.
He is teaching students how to create web pages using Dreamweaver in "Design" view, and then telling students if they can do this, they are Web Designers. I was angry, i instantly replied and questioned his knowledge on HTML and asked the age old question: "What are tables in HTML used for?", he replied "To lay out web pages and for tabled data", i replied with "wrong", he laughed and told me he knows what he is talking about. I seriously want to raise a huge issue at the college, but im not sure how to do it. This guy is on 22k+ a year, and cannot even teach people correctly, he may have been a pro back in the days when tables were acceptable to lay out web pages, but in todays world he is a fool. Its half term now, we have an assignment to complete using Dreamweaver, and he said i have to use tables, its not a problem, i will do as the assignment requests. I will walk the extra mile and create the same page without tables, with semantics, with accessibility in mind and without the bloated mark-up, and then write a essay comparing the both. What power do i have (if any) to try and get the college to understand they cannot use a cowboy to teach tomorrows computer experts. Should i use my essay and examples and take it to the head of the college? I really don't know how to go about this, but its definatly a problem. I really am angry and annoyed, you pay money to be taught the correct methods. People who don't understand are fine, they will believe him, and thats the shocking part about it all. I await some advice. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
