The Basics Flashcards
HTML - function
Creates webpage structure
CSS - function
Design webpage appearance
JavaScript - function
Programs functionality
What is the internet?
A bunch of computers connected by fiberoptic cables
What is fiber optics?
Light traveling through glass or plastic pipes to send information from computer to computer.
Client
The computer requesting information
Server
The computer that responds to the client requests
Browsers
A vehicle for making requests
AWS
Amazon Web Servers - seems like everything important lives here. Scary.
Static Website
A site that doesn’t change. All users see the same thing when they look at it
Dynamic Website
“Interactive” sites. The information changes based on requests and responses
Front-End Code
Code stored on the site. Basically what we see - the site’s template and the functionality
Back-End Code & What does it consist of?
Code stored on servers. Holds the information that gets put into the templates.
Server and Database
Back-End Languages
PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, R, Go, Haskell, Perl, Lua, C#
Front-End Languages
HTML, CSS, JavaScript