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Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
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Posted by Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Coding and Programming the same thing?

Coding and Programming the same thing?

2 Answers

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points
Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

They are synonyms. The reason why you might hear coding more recently is because it comes off as less "intensive" sounding and thus less intimidating. I have seen some people argue that programming is more about the problem solving vs coding being all about the actual tools and implementation of the solution.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

I agree, programming for my self sound intimidating xD nd coding don't lol

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I think the main differences are in markup and languages.

HTML is not programming in the traditional sense, neither is CSS, or vanilla CSS at any rate. But it is code; the right combination of text that the browser can read that does something.

Programming is different. A set of coding techniques that allows you to get the computer or even the web browser to do what you want it to do.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

So we can say, coding is not programming? but when you code, you are writing code which is when you are programming, it's you are writing algorithms or js whatever.?

Coukd i officially say coding is notbprogramming?

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

No i don't think so. Coding is both programming and markup, and markup is coding. They're interchangeable.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Yes that's what I mean, they fall on one at the end uh : p but we can say that web related, when coding, we can say it's about html nd css? I refer like thst to my buddy when he asks what I was doing nd i say coding when in html nd css and in php I'd say programming.

In one word is the same basically: p writing programs u code

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I suppose then it's personal preference. Personally i use them as one and the same and think of them the same way whether, it's JS, PHP or HTML/CSS :)