Of all the computer languages you will read about on my blog, HTML (hypertext markup language) is the simplest. That's because it's not a full fledged programming language. You can't write logical statements using HTML like you can with a programming language like Javascript (where, for instance, you can have code that behaves one way if some condition is true, and another if that condition is false). Instead, HTML is used to mark up content so web browsers know what kinds of content they're dealing with.
For instance, you can use an <h2>
tag to tell the browser to render the word "Skills" as a heading, and you can use an unordered list with list items (<ul>
and <li>
s) to mark up the skills themselves and render them as a bulleted list.
For the most part, that's all there is to HTML: you take content and wrap it in the appropriate tags. You'll get plenty of practice with that throughout your projects, but in the remainder of this reading, I will go over enough background about HTML to code