Friday, January 8, 2010

HTML Coding/programing Tutorial?

Hey guys,


I wanted to take up coding. Not with anybody, just myself. I heard that I should start out with HTML. coding first, but I wanted some websites with easy tutorials for HTML. and higher levels. (such as C++)





So basically, whoever gives me the most helpful links will of course be awarded with the best answer.


Also, can somebody tell me the order of difficulty for types of programming?


Thanks in advance!HTML Coding/programing Tutorial?
HTML to C++? You're looking at two ends of the scale of difficulty.





HTML is by far the easiest...mainly because it's a markup language, not a programming language. Learning HTML and CSS are by far the easiest steps to take, but coding they are not. There are no conditional constructs, no loops, no variables or maths...





While necessary if you want to be a web developer, and a good tool in the toolkit of a flexible developer, they will not help you be a programmer.





If you want to start simple, start with a scripting language. Learn how to write batch files, VBScript/VBA Macros, Powershell, even JavaScript could help (though would require you know HTML, CSS and the DOM).





From there you can go several directions. Java, C, C++, C#, VB, Python, it doesn't really matter which one, whatever takes your fancy. Concepts from one will translate well into most of the others.





Your question regarding order of difficulty is vague. What do you mean by ';types of programming';? If I had to choose, I would say you mean 'web development' and 'application development' are the two types of programming, with app dev being more difficult, but that's probably not what you're asking. Did you mean the programming languages? Development methodologies? IDEs? Programming paradigms?





Edit: Contrary to what liars never lies says, ';coding'; is a synonym for computer programming (as in, ';program code';), and as already stated, HTML is not a programming language. The proof is in the name of course: Hyper Text MARKUP LANGUAGE. It is a language used to markup text, where ';markup'; refers to the way the text is styled, arranged or structured. It adds context descriptors to content. Writing HTML-marked-up content is no more coding/programming than using a word processor to achieve the same task is.HTML Coding/programing Tutorial?
Anybody that says if you want to learn programming you should start from HTML should be shot in the head.





HTML is radically different from programming or scripting. HTML is codes to describe data. Program/Scripts is codes to describe process.





%26lt;nitpick%26gt; Contrary to what oracle says, HTML coding is also coding. Though it is very different to coding program/scripts. %26lt;/nitpick%26gt;





This is not to say that you shouldn't learn HTML though. HTML is easier than programming, and learning it allows you to get used to working in text-based environments (don't use WYSIWYG editors). All decent application developer knows at least some HTML. Also, HTML has a little fully-fledged scripting language called Javascript.
http://www.w3schools.com/htmL/
http://opera.com/wsc/ will take you through HTML, CSS and some basic JavaScript.

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