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"Writing HTML is NOT programming" - I'm in two minds about this. "In the strict sense, a programming language is a way to issue instructions to a computer".

"Writing HTML is NOT programming" - I'm in two minds about this. "In the strict sense, a programming language is a way to issue instructions to a computer". - That's not true. Strictly speaking, you are talking only about imperative programming languages. There are other programming languages which are declarative, you just declare the goals you want but not the instructions on how to achieve the goals. Strictly speaking again, HTML & CSS are declarative languages, that's why I can't decide whether it's true that writing HTML is not programming. "First of all, you will need to learn what programming means. This will be done along learning your first language: Python." - But you are talking about learning web development, JavaScript is THE language of the web (at least for now). So why Python? why not JavaScript?

nicoschuele 13y ago
For the discussion on HTML being a programming language or not, I know there's a war going on about it. My take is that except presentation, you can't achieve anything with HTML. Especially not logic. But writing HTML is coding. Not programming. See the difference? About Python, I'm talking about becoming a web developer, not a web designer. JavaScript is a front end language (and if you look in my recommended path, I also say one must learn it and I provide sources to material in order to do that). But first, I believe somebody needs to learn 'programming'. When it comes to web development, a lot is done server-side (like for example, database input/output operations) so Python is a very valid choice :-)