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RE: How to become a Programmer for Complete Noobs! Part 2
That's not a "program". The web browser is simply displaying what is essentially a text file.
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
</body>
</html>
Still not a program, but it is HTML. That's one of the simplest HTML sites you can make. Teaching people how to properly make those tags and nest them, that's the simplest HTML introduction you can do.
HTML is not a programming language. It's a formatting language. It's in the name. It's a markup language.
Hi geekpowered,
You're mostly right on all accounts:
However...people have to start somewhere.
I'm not entirely sure how useful definitions are when you are learning how to program. I can tell you that when I first started learning how to program everything was magic, because I was too busy trying to learn the fundamentals.
A LOT of people quit programming (or "formatting") very early on. Maybe even MOST people. I don't have statistics, but, I've seen a lot of people quit early, because early on, programming is a mostly frustrating and fruitless endeavor.
So...I made this series to simplify programming into a series of simple steps.
I hope that at least one person out there, someday, will be helped and find joy in simple programming, even if it is "fake programming".
You gotta start somewhere.
Cheers!