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Can someone please tell me what in the world a "source code" is?

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Hi! I've been reading lately about source codes, how to look at a source code, how to know if someone is looking at yours (all in regards to myspace). My question is...what in the world is a source code, what is it for & why would I care if someone looks at mine? Ha ha. Seriously, I'm dying of curiosity-thanks!

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You don't know??!!

It's the data that makes a web page or computer program.

ex:

in a .htm file type

<script>

alert("hi")

</script>

and it will display a message box saying Hi.

There are more advanced features but you get the idea.

You could even make a non-stop fireworks display with HTML and Javascript!!!

The reason you don't want people to view your code is so they can't tell how you did it, therefore they wouldn't be able to say they came up with the idea.
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raw unparsed-or-compiled programming or markup language
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source code is the programming language code that you write that the computer interprets to produce the stuff you see on the screen and whatever behind the scenes operations are necessary.
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Source code is basically the source of the website; what it is made up of. If you look at a source code for a site, you'll see a whole bunch of links and HTML. It's just the language of the internet and it's ability to produce what you want onto your computer screen. People can use it to take stuff from your website and put it on theirs. For example, if you're a web designer, and someone sees an amazing site you've just made, they can steal the whole code and reproduce your site.
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Source code is the code used to create a web page. By looking at the code for a page, someone could replicate certain features of that page, or make a clone of the entire page.
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source code is the html formatting that makes your web page look the way it does. it should be under the VIEW menu in your web browser.

it usually looks something like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"...

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body> your web page content here</body>

</html>

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Basically, it is a programming language.

"A computer program's source code is the collection of files needed to convert from human-readable form to some kind of computer-executable form."

http://www.answers.com/topic/source-code

If you right-click on an empty part of a web page, this one included, you can choose 'view source' from the menu that pops up and see the coding that is used to build the page.
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