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...wed by R: HTML --> Javascript --> R I think motivation is key since the exercise is pointless if the student lacks interest. HTML is pretty motivating since it does not take long to teach a basic tag set and after that you can develop your own web pages which is empowering. Moving to Javascriptis quite motivating since it allows one to put nifty dynamic features into your web pages. By that time you are using programming and its a natural transition from Javascript to R since the syntaxes of both are inspired by C. For teaching HTML, which is where I am now, I printed out the tag refer...