As a bit of a left field alternative there’s always Vim. 

Ok it might not be the best introduction to text editors, but given it 
exists on pretty much every platform (including Android and iPhone/iPad - 
http://www.vim.org/download.php) there’d be no excuses for not doing the 
homework.

The main Mac port (https://code.google.com/p/macvim/) has legacy versions 
back to 10.4. However, this might be more of an extra credit editor given 
that it takes *some* getting used to. There is a game 
(http://vim-adventures.com/) which can help with learning some of the 
basic Vim controls.

Joe



On 16/05/2015 15:20, "Sarles Patricia (18K500)" <[log in to unmask]> 
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>I just this minute subscribed to this list after reading Andromeda 
>Yelton's column in American Libraries from yesterday with great interest 
>since I would like to teach coding in my high school library next year.
>
>I purchased Andy Harris' HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies for my 
>summer reading and the free HTML editors he mentions in the book are 
>either not really free or are not compatible with my lab's 2008 Macs.
>
>Can anyone recommend a free HTML editor for older Macs?
>
>Many thanks and happy to be on this list,
>Patricia
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