This week I made my own website using html, and is decent to some extent. Now that I have a grasp of html, I find myself wondering: is html a programming language? One internet source and my teacher tell that it isn't but I'm still not exactly sure why.
Of course, the answer to this question comes with the understanding of the term "programming." In my own words, I can say that programming is the process of telling a computer what to do (a.k.a writing an algorithm). I also understand that html is way of designing pages, which are ultimately processed by a server.
With html, you are still telling the computer what to do, just in less direct way. It also doesn't involve nearly as much algorithmic thinking, at least in basic web designing, as idiosyncratic programming does. So, in this case, I do agree that html is not a "true" programming language, but nevertheless, it is still important in many computer science applications.
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