Why You, yes you, Should Learn HTML!
If you were born before the year 1999 you remember the “dark
ages” of no Google, Facebook, twitter, YouTube, or personal web pages. If you
told someone you were a blogger, they would have definitely looked at you funny,
and might have thought you said booger maybe making a Revenge of the Nerds
reference (Booger was a character in the
hit 80’s movie Revenge of the Nerds). However, things are very different today.
Source codes of various types are intermingled into our daily lives in almost
everything we do, they are truly inescapable.
The need to understand
the basics of programming is important and is going to increase in importance
as the years go by. I know right now you
are probably saying things like, “It looks too complicated…” or “I don’t know
anything about computers…” well I can tell you from firsthand knowledge that
YOU CAN do it, and it IS NOT too complicated. Remember when you were learning
how to write, ride a bike, or the first day of school? Learning to code is really
similar to any of your first experiences, the key is to start learning little
by little, practice, and most importantly MAKE MISTAKES. Out of all those
aforementioned keys, I feel that making mistakes is the best way to learn.
When I first started learning HTML, which stands for Hyper
Text Markup Language that your web browser reads to display a web page, I would
make all kinds of mistakes. And guess what? I still do! The beauty of not being
afraid to make mistakes or fail is that you learn what works and what doesn’t.
The computer is only going to do what you tell it as long as you follow the
rules. Some programming languages are more forgiving than others, but all in all,
if you just start with the basics of HTML, you will be well on your way of
learning the basics of coding. Subsequently, you can learn things like software
programming algorithms, and that’s when things get more exciting because you will
learn to make the computer do really cool stuff!
In the end programming will give you an insight to our
society and how things work, by allowing you to look behind the curtain and see
the great and powerful Oz, and who knows, you just might turn it into a career!
Don’t be afraid to start learning programming. If you never become some sort of
programming genius, though you may, that’s okay. You can still take your knowledge and start a
blog or create a simple landing page highlighting you, the sky is the limit!
Below are some helpful resources to get you up and running.
Good Luck!
Below are some helpful resources to get you up and running.
Good Luck!
W3schools needs to be book marked into your favorites. They
have tutorials on just about all the prominent programming languages. Also, you
get definitions to all the acronyms that you might run across.
Next is YouTube. The chances you have used YouTube at least
once is pretty high, so now instead of searching for funny cat videos you can
search for HTML tutorials. There are a lot of good videos and a few bad ones so
just use some common sense when searching. Here is just one of thousands of
videos.
Next is Lynda.com. Lynda is also a great place to learn
HTML5 and all kinds of programming languages. The tutorials do cost, but they
are top notch and you can also start a free trial.
Here is a link to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics on
the job outlook for web programmers, just in case if you aren’t convinced
enough to start learning how to program!
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