Whether we are eight or eighty our world is shaped by the web, web design and most particularly the rapidly altering knowledge infrastructure made possible by talented, inspired and hard working people across the globe - and the law of accelerating returns. I hope this helps you with the new literacy and encourages you to take your first steps of active creation by learning to program.
Many software developers do not consider HTML to be a programming language - because it isn't. HTML is a text markup language; it doesn't have any of the looping or flow control constructs present in a real programming language.
But you have to start somewhere!
By learning HTML, you can begin to absorb some of ways of thinking required to progress in the programming world.
Ignore the notion that you can let AI do your coding for you.(vibe coding) You cannot manage, what you don't understand.
Vibe coding is an AI-assisted software development method where you describe your app idea in natural language to a large language model (LLM), which generates the code, shifting focus from line-by-line writing to guiding the AI with high-level direction and prompts to build, refine, and debug software.
