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RE: How to become a Programmer for Complete Noobs! Part 2

in #tech • 7 years ago

Hey geekpowered, thanks for your input!

I took some time to think about the ABSOLUTE simplest program you can write-- even in HTML.

Maybe you didn't know this geekpowered, but, if you write some stuff in an .html file WITHOUT ANY TAGS, you can make a program. Sure, it's only going to display what you typed in the file in black unformatted text with no background. But for some person out there, starting at step 0 is better than starting at step 1, which is, of course, to write with all the HTML tags.

Thanks for taking time to comment. I'm considering updating this, since I'm not totally certain this qualifies as a program.

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    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.

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       7 years ago  

      Hi geekpowered,

      You're mostly right on all accounts:

      1. Technically speaking, HTML is NOT a programming language
      2. No HTML code put into a browser isn't really a program

      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!

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