What Are Coding Skills?

Four basic computer languages make up coding skills: hypertext markup, cascading style, hypertext pre-processor and flash.

Without code, you wouldn't be able to see this website. Code allows a browser to display a website's text, images and graphics correctly. To gain coding skills, a programmer learn code language and programming. This skill is increasingly in demand, and Princeton Review named computer science and information as one of the top 10 college majors. Four basic code languages exist to build a website: hypertext markup, cascading style, hypertext pre-processor and flash.

Hypertext Markup

Hypertext Markup (HTML) is a set of instructions for the browser on how to interpret a website. Programmers must learn how to combine HTML elements, attributes and values together to create a website.

Cascading Style

Cascading Style or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) defines how a website looks. From its background color to font size, CSS helps to fine tune a website, going past just basic structure. To learn CSS, programmers must become familiar with inline style sheets, embedded style sheets and linked style sheets and the different uses of each.

Hypertext Pre-Processor

Hypertext Pre-Processor (PHP) first requires specific software and a server. Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most-common PHP software and allows a user to connect to a server. To use PHP, a programmer most connect to a server, and then he may load as many external style sheets as he wants to the server, cutting down the length and depth of any one external sheet.

Flash

Flash programming creates animations. Flash allows for greater website interactivity, and Flash animation loads faster and is more-user friendly than older non-Flash website animations. For a programmer to learn Flash, he must learn how to combine vector graphics into a single Flash animation.

References

• W3C: Markup
• W3C: Cascading Style Sheets
• PHP Net: PHP
• W3C: Flash Animation
• Princeton Review: Top 10 College Majors

Resources

• W3C