I'm in 9th grade and my first lesson in my online high school elective web design class starts today. The course is supposed to teach HTML.

I now only know extremely basic Html like "<h1> and <p>.

The teacher says we're going to learn it with KompoZer. The software looks like it does a lot of the work for you. For example, you can pick an image and it will insert it for you (without you evening learning the HTML code, as far as I know...). I want to learn HTML and master it myself, not with some random program that does all the work for me. I want to be able to sit down on any computer and create a website on Notepad, not have to download KompoZer.

What should I do? Should I quit the class or something? Does KompoZer really do all the work? Will using Kompozer be bad for learning HTML to build professional websites? Any tips? Thanks so much!
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