A bird photographed on a trail hike in Garrison, New York, with a Fujifilm X-T20 and XF 50-140mm lens.

Programming, coding, and software engineering are often used interchangeably. Here is how I usually think of them. Programming Programming is solving explicit problems in a verifiable manner. It is similar to mathematical proofs. "Find an element in a sorted sequence" is a problem. A binary search algorithm is a...