Some use of "coding" is simply for text and syllable brevity. Also thanks to its relatively new household term status, it doesn't carry as much of the pre-inte

Some use of "coding" is simply for text and syllable brevity. Also thanks to its relatively new household term status, it doesn't carry as much of the pre-internet 80s/90s imagery of nocturnal bearded men doing arcane systems programming through a CRT. The average non-tech office worker in the 80s had some kind of experience with an oddball programmer coming in for an assignment and leaving with a check in hand. As a child of the 90s, that impression even trickled down to me. Partly due to my father sharing his past workplace experiences, but mostly due to the exaggeration of television, movies, and early internet culture. "Coding" is more cleanly associated with the new wave of engineers, entrepreneurs, apps, and games visible to young people in popular media. It seems irrational, and it is, but that is language and life.