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Why JavaScript is one of the top popular Programming Languages? . Hello friends, am here to give a shot introduction on JavaScript; Why is it the top popular programming language. JavaScript is Server side programming language, very simple, easy to work used to develop web pages. You can display an alert, prompt box, form, interface, etc all with JavaScript. It uses .html extension and easy to run on any browser. You can learn JS even on your mobile phone without using computer. Most hosts accepts JS either paid free, on the other hand you must have even a little knowledge on HTML and CSS before jumping to JavaScript. . Most Programmers and developers uses JS, HTML and CSS as front-end and PHP and any other language as the back-end. On my own view, when you want to start learning I suggested you JS before jumping to any language, but note that HTML is not a programming language, I wrote an article about this last week..! . #Mohiddeen

Why HTML is not a Programming Language??? . HTML is great. It defines the structure of webpages and it determines how data is displayed online. What you’re looking at right now is HTML code, read and interpreted by your browser. But this doesn’t make HTML a programming language, but a Markup Language. HTML is a type of markup language that encapsulates, or “marks up” data within HTML tags, which define the data and describe its purpose on the webpage. The web browser then reads the HTML, which tells it things like which parts are headings, which parts are paragraphs, which parts are links, etc. The HTML describes the data to the browser, and the browser then displays the data accordingly. . Programming languages have functional purposes. HTML, as a markup language doesn’t really “do” anything in the sense that a programming language does. HTML contains no programming logic. It doesn’t have common conditional statements such as If/Else. It can’t evaluate expressions or do any mat...