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HTML is not for programming. It is not a programming language. You can use it to do markup, which in simple terms is affecting the look of a page, like its fonts and colours. You need to know tags and attributes and have an idea of the layout before you start and you also need to have your text and any images and any other things you need for the page.
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Html vs traditional programming language?
HTML is not a programming language so it is very different to programming languages. HTML is really just for formatting text and laying out pages, what we call marking up a page. So it is a Markup Language. It can't really do anything interactive with you. Web pages that can do things normally have programming code built into them, with languages like Javascript. HTML can't even do simple things like calculations. Calculations are fundamental to programming languages, as are many other things like: making decisions, repeating instructions, storing data, processing data, and many other things. HTML can't do any of those things. HTML borrows some things from programming, like the facility to use comments, encouraging people to lay out their code properly and the use of simple English-like commands. If people have learned how to use HTML, it is still a big step up to grasp the concepts of programming. There are also very many programming languages, many of them specialising in doing certain kinds of jobs. Many are very complicated and technical and can be quite cryptic, making them hard to learn. They can also be very strict in how you have to do things, and even simple errors can stop your program working. Programming can be very frustrating because of that. You need to learn and understand a lot more things to write programs than you need for creating HTML pages. HTML is a lot less complicated. You can even make some basic mistakes and your page will still work. HTML can be learned very simply and quickly. It is very easy to show someone how to create a simple web page with HTML. So there is a very big difference between HTML and programming languages.
How does HTML helps programming students?
It is important to note that HTML is not a programming language. It is a markup language. However, it does have some similar characteristics, like that it is a file with a list of commands, it has rules, it allows comments and other things. It is easy to learn and can be useful to get people used to the basic concept of giving instructions to a computer in a file. However there are lots of fundamentals of programming that are not in HTML, as it is not a programming language. For serious programming courses, people would not be shown HTML as part of the training. They would start on an actual programming language to be shown the fundamentals of programming. Some programming can be linked into web pages, and so integrated with HTML and if people are going to be creating programs for the internet, then they would learn HTML.
What is the pac man HTML code?
You cannot create Pac Man just with HTML. It is not a programming language. You need a programming language to write programs. HTML is not capable of doing those kinds of things. It just lays out pages and formats text to a limited extent. A website with Pac Man has programming code built into it.
Why is HTML required?
HTML is required to create web pages.
What operating system uses HTML?
No operating system uses HTML, HTML is only a language for web browsers to display webpages, without a web browser it is useless. HTML coding cannot handle the complex tasks required of an operating system.
