Is HTML as simple to learn as it seems?
Yes, it is. HTML is really that simple -- it's just a markup language.
It'll get harder when you start adding CSS and JavaScript into the mix. CSS seems like a simple language, but it can be tricky to use in practice, especially when you try and do something non-trivial. JavaScript is the only actual programming language of the three, and so will have an additional "tier" of complexity (if that makes sense) and so will probably require much more time to learn.
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People say it is easy, but I know python, c++, and a little bit of java and it looks like gibberish to me. But I haven't really needed to learn it either.
I have spent several hours learning some beginner HTML via code academy as I have always found coding interesting. With very little time invested I can fairly easily create a simple but quite passable backbone for a web page (minus CSS of course). I have also spent some time looking at the source codes of several sites and I find that despite little education I can understand a majority of the code now. Is HTML really this simple or am I missing something?
(to be fair there are large parts of code of more complicated pages like facebook for example that gets me quite lost but I am still able to follow a good deal of it.)
Yes, it is. HTML is really that simple -- it's just a markup language.
It'll get harder when you start adding CSS and JavaScript into the mix. CSS seems like a simple language, but it can be tricky to use in practice, especially when you try and do something non-trivial. JavaScript is the only actual programming language of the three, and so will have an additional "tier" of complexity (if that makes sense) and so will probably require much more time to learn.
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