The document discusses the basics of web programming using ASP.NET. It defines key concepts such as character set, tokens, keywords, identifiers, literals, punctuators, operators, data types and variables. Character set refers to the set of valid characters a language can recognize like letters, digits and symbols. The smallest individual unit in a program is called a token which can be keywords, identifiers, literals, operators or punctuators. Keywords are reserved words, identifiers name parts of a program, literals are constants, operators perform computations and punctuators separate tokens. Data types declare the type of variables which are used to store information.