What is coding?

Question

I know it’s a language/recipe that computers understand, but I’m confused to exactly what each different language does. I’m going through the html “course” right now. I’m just confused about what it accomplishes and how I can use it on an actual computer

Answer 1

You can think of coding or programming as simply giving a set of instructions to a machine. Each language has its own syntax and rules and so each requires some kind of an interpreter -- an application or an environment.

For example, the HTML you are learning is "understood" by web browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and others) and "translated" into webpages layouts. It is a *markup* language, which means only a really high-level hint of an object is needed to actually "invoke" it.
For example: you write <a href="yourlink">Your text</a> and behind the scenes the browser already knows how to handle it and make it clickable.

Other languages are more complicated as you need an interpreter or you have to compile your code into a ready application, but that's another story :)

Answer 2

In general,What I can realize by coding is that I have to write program according to instructions and that program can lead a machine or something else!!
And thanks Kuba Siekierzyński sir for your answer with explanation!!