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Does HTML+CSS really count as coding? When I read the title I assumed it referred to HTML+CSS gurus and why they should learn javascript + some server side lan

• simonw 17y ago
  Yes. You're assembling sequences of characters which tell a computer to do something. Those characters are then processed by a lexer and a parser, turned in to an abstract syntax tree of some sort and used to generate a result. Just because the languages you are using are declarative rather than procedural doesn't make them not "code". And if you're writing code, I'd say you're coding.
  • adelevie 17y ago
    If you want to be that technical, writing this comment is "coding". I'm encoding into English sentences, and you, the reader, decodes into thoughts. Designing in photoshop is also coding. The designer encodes the "look" of a web site into an image, the image is then decoded by the user in that the design "makes sense". I'd say a more logical cut off point is between presentation and business logic. Presentation includes html, css, photoshop. Business logic is server-side scripting and databasing.