# Coding

*Not to be [confused](often_confused.md) with [programming](programming.md).*

Coding nowadays means low quality attempt at [programming](programming.md), usually practiced by [soydevs](soydev.md) and barely qualified coding monkeys. Coder is to programmer what a bricklayer is to architect.

Traditionally it means encoding and decoding of information as in e.g. video coding -- this is the only non-gay meaning of the word