Attila Vágó, web developer, materials and content engineer for eLearning, told Hackernoon how coding differs from programming and why it is becoming more and more popular.
Coding has become part of pop culture. But programming is not. And I will explain why.
Fifteen years ago I was advised to become a programmer because I was an introvert and shy man, and had an analytical mindset and a complete lack of social life, but I only laughed and dismissed such advisers. At that time I was a teenager, and in my adolescence the programmer lived forever in the basement of my parents’ house, was pimply and wore ugly glasses, he never had a girlfriend, but it paid off the fantasies about Princess Leia (and quite often). This lifestyle was not to my liking. In addition, then I already had a girlfriend, and quite beautiful.