As we discussed earlier, we are going to use web coding languages as our proxy for talking about the thousands of coding languages. Let's start by discussing markup languages. HTML is a markup coding language. The coding language is designed as a way to annotate a document in its syntax to be called out from the content text. Markup coding languages come from the concept of writing on a paper draft, which is traditionally written on with a red marker by an editor. In digital media, this "markup text" was coded into HTML tags, thanks to Tim Berners Lee and his colleagues. Markup languages such as HTML are the basis for structuring web software. HTML is considered a semantic coding language.
Semantics is the study of language meaning and the interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure. Reading comprehension is largely determined by semantics as it defines how we understand others, and even what decisions...