核心畫面

One way to hold this word: two people agree that a mark will stand for something, and then they write the marks. Green means unleaded. A red wristband means allergy. A line of text means "put this picture on the screen". The agreement is the code; doing the writing is the coding. That is the whole word, and both meanings on this page are the same act done in different rooms.

可以想成兩個人先講好:某個記號代表某件事,然後開始把記號寫上去。綠色代表無鉛汽油。紅色手環代表有過敏。一行文字代表「更多收起可以想成兩個人先講好:某個記號代表某件事,然後開始把記號寫上去。綠色代表無鉛汽油。紅色手環代表有過敏。一行文字代表「把這張圖放到螢幕上」。講好的那套約定叫 code,寫上去的這個動作叫 coding。這個字大概就是這樣,而這一頁的兩個意思,其實是同一個動作在不同的房間裡做。

From the word’s history

From code + -ing: the -ing turns the noun code into the activity of applying it.

coding 就是 code 加上 -ing。code 本身指一套代表別的東西的記號,-ing 把它變成「做這件事」。所以字面上它一直是「把意思換成記號」這個動作,至於換成的是顏色、字母,還是程式指令,字本身不管。

Wiktionary entry for coding (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1307834542), etymology: From code + -ing.

Two branches

寫給電腦看的記號

同一個動作,只是讀記號的是機器,而且機器照著做。

noun · A2

The work of writing the instructions that tell a computer what to do.

寫程式

寫給人看的記號

同一個動作,讀記號的是知道規則的人。

noun · B2

A system of marking things with letters, numbers, colours or symbols so that anyone who knows the system can tell what each mark means; also the work of putting those marks on.

編碼標示

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

codingnoun/koʊdɪŋ/

  • 1

    The process of encoding or decoding.

  • 2

    An encoding.

  • 3

    The process of writing computer software code.

    • I spent all night on the coding, but the program was ready by morning.
    • I spent decades as a knowledge worker in technology, precisely where society wanted me—in front of screens, building digital products, becoming the very kind of specialist I’m now critiquing. Like many of my generation, I learned some simple coding before I learned to fix a leaky faucet or [to] grow my own food. I still love technology and believe in its potential to automate mundane tasks, freeing us to pursue higher forms of creativity and connection—but this promise rings hollow if we sacrifice our fundamental capabilities in the process.
  • 4

    emergency-medicinemedicinesciencesA method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.

  • 5

    An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.

  • 6

    mathematicssciencesA 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter

codingadj/koʊdɪŋ/

  • 1

    Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.

    • My car is coding today, so I cannot drive.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。