I have some questions. First of all, is coding and programming the same thing? Are they hard to do? I'm 13, 14 in a month. So I might want to learn now. Thanks for any help.
Your question got me interested, so I asked John here in the office.
He and I had a discussion about it and came to the conclusion that coding is just one aspect of programming. Coding embodies the writing process of programming where as programming embodies the creative process and problem solving side of it. I even found this blog post that brought up some interesting points, here.
For the most part though, they are the same thing. It's not hard, it just takes practice like most things.
Programming is often a matter of patience. In many programming languages, it takes a lot of code to do something simple. For example, in ActionScript, instead of telling Flash, "move the character", we have to tell it something more detailed like, "Wait for the player to press a key. If that key is 'W', then that player is moving up. Keep having the player move up. Did the player lift the 'W' key yet? He/she did? Okay the character is no longer moving up."
As long as you don't rush yourself, programming will be a challenging, but rewarding hobby.
I was also wondering the same thing as Carnage here, thanks for all the info guys it's been a big help, and thanks for puting this topic on here Carnage.
