Languages Flashcards
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HTML
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Hypertext Markup Language (secure)
- ensures the proper structure of document information such as text and images for your Internet browser
- a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, colour, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages
- used to create electronic documents (called pages) that are displayed on the World Wide Web
- not case-sensitive
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CSS
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Cascading Style Sheets (secure)
- adapts webpage presentation to different types of devices (e.g desktop, smartphone, printers).
- a style sheet language
- used for describing the presentation of Web pages (colors, layout, and fonts) written in any of the XML-based markup languages (e.g HTML, Office Open XML).
- 3 types of CSS namely: Inline CSS, Internal or Embedded CSS, External CSS.
3
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JS
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JavaScript (less secure, securable)
- a text-based programming language
- used both on the client-side and server-side that allows you to make web pages interactive (e.g search box, embed video, browser games).
- used for creating web and mobile apps, building web servers, and developing server applications with Node.js.
p. s Node.js is an open-source development platform for executing JS code server-side (built on Google Chrome).
4
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SQL
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Structured Query Language (secure)
- used for accessing and manipulating databases
- e.g insert, delete, and update data. Also create, delete, or alter database objects
- handles database information using tables and then shows a language to query these tables and other related objects (views, functions, procedures, etc).
5
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XML
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EXtensible Markup Language (secure)
- a markup language much like HTML
- designed to carry data, not to display data
- designed to be self-descriptive
- is a W3C Recommendation
6
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XHTML
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Extensible HyperText Markup Language (secure)
- is HTML defined as an XML application
- almost identical to HTML 4.01
- stricter and cleaner version of HTML
- case-sensitive (must be lowercase)
