What’s The Difference Between Html And Visual Basic?
Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at
11:19 am
I’m teaching myself Visual Basic from a book just now. I know that many websites are made using HTML coding, and web design is something which maybe interests me in the future.
What I’m asking is if there is a difference between HTML and Visual Basic, and if so how much of it is different? Like if I wanted to start coding things like websites once I was done with Visual Basic how much more would I need to learn?
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HTML and VB are competely different, but can be used together.
HTML is purely for visual stuff.. it is static and cannot be changed without going back into the html code and changing it.. You can obviously build a website with only this..
VB can make things dynamic, so for example a page can be personalised per user. You would also need to VB (or another language) to create an online shop, because you would need to use VB (or something) to tell the page how much to charge people and how to take their money.
Now this may be a weird analogy but my friend asked me the same thing the other day (I am a programmer). I said HTML can give you a static hand.. but if you want the hand to move you must add some VB (or other coding language)
Ok an awful explanation.. but what you need to know is..
1: if you want to build websites you definitly need to know HTML
2: if you want those websites to do anything other than just display stuff you need to learn something like VB (or c#, PHP,Java…)
The only similarity between VB and HTML is that they are both computer languages.
Visual Basic is a programming language, complete with variable scoping, conditional branching, input and output handling, and so on.
HTML is an acronym for HyperText Markup Language. As the name suggests, it is a standardized method for displaying (in a browser) content.
You can use Visual Basic to create HTML output, but you cannot use HTML to create Visual Basic.
Visual Basic is a product of Microsoft’s. HTML is a standard set by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3). You buy VB, you write HTML.
A wonderful tutorial on HTML (one of many) can be found at the W3 pages.
There is a lot of difference between visual basic and html. visual basic is used to make up a program while html is used to make up web pages. I would say html is used with visual basic script or java script to make web page more dynamic. you know all those alert boxes etc. Html has many similar elements just like visual basic like buttons etc. but the way they are coded are a little different.
For starting you would not find anything similar to visual basic when you learn html but once you get into script writing for the html then you would see lot of things similar to visual basic.
And you do know that once you get the logic for programming it is easier to learn other languages.
Hello,
Visual Basic (VB) is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model. VB is also considered a relatively easy to learn and use programming language, because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage.
HTML is an initialism for Hypertext Mark-up Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document.
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HTML or XHTML as the modern standard goes, is not a real programming language, but what most people refer to as a structure language, it defines how something looks. Visual basic is a programming language and is used to make applications. HTML is used to create web pages that are static and don’t do anything. Visual Basic can be used with HTML to make webpages like this site that are dynamic and change.
I don’t lol often, but this is one of those moments.
Visual basic and HTML are so completely different it doesn’t really make sense to waste time explaining those differences, while it’s debatable whether or not visual basic counts as a programming language, it’s safe to say that HTML does not, it’s a markup language, a form of text formatting, very simple by comparison and used for a totally different purpose.
HTML is used for making web sites.
Visual Basic is used for making programs.
HTML is easy to start off with but then you build on top of there with CSS, PHP, XML, and new technologies to enhance your sites.