Before we start, answer this question for yourself, just like real programmers do. Right click somewhere inside your browser window, and select ‘View Page Source’. Scroll through the window that pops up and see if you recognize or understand anything.

As you may have expected, you were just viewing the code behind this webpage. Most of it is written in HTML, but there are little bits of CSS and JavaScript here and there.

Now, in simple terms, let’s define coding as the basic act of writing  – in a programming language – a script that a computer can understand. This script will tell the computer to behave in a certain way, to do a certain thing, and to, ultimately, perform the actions that you want it to – if your code is right.