On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:54:42AM -0800, jrem wrote:
> 
> --- Byron A Jeff <byron@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:13:30AM -0800, jrem wrote:
> > > I've skipped over a few posts so I hope this isn't redundant, but I
> > > have been trying to get my kids into programming of any type for
> > years.
> > >  I have finally hit pay dirt with my 13 year old daughter and html,
> > as
> > > she took to building her own website.  I showed her some basic
> > commands
> > > and she went to town.  I'm running a server on my lan, my router
> > wan is
> > > broadband, so she doesn't have to deal with ftp, she just saves her
> > > files over the network.  
> > 
> > HTML isn't a programming language. Javascript is a programming
> > language.
> > HTML is a markup language used to describe text.
> > 
> > BAJ
> 
> 
> well, IMO when it's my kids entrance to the programming world, code is
> code.  "Programming" vs "markup language" is semantics.

But it's not simply semantics.

Simple example. Write a program that generates a table of squares from 1 to
the number input from the user. Write it using only HTML.

In bash shell script off the top of my head.

#---------------------------
echo -n "Enter the table size: "
read size
i=1
while [ $i -lt $size ] ; do
   i=$[i+1]
   echo n=$i n^2=$[i*i]
done
#-------- End of script ------

Now exactly how do you accomplish a task like this in HTML.

Once again: HTML isn't a programming language.

BAJ
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