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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What is the difference between programming & scripting? Also, is "coding" the act you're performing while programming or scripting, or is coding something totally different?
gpt
Scripts are usually a set of coded instructions that are run by the computer on the fly.  Programs can be scripts but often they are 'compiled' code.  In a compiled prgram, the computer converts the code into a special binary file that will run the instructions faster.  Compiled programs are often shipped to users without their source code, so you can't see what is inside.  Scripts *are* the source code.

"Coding" usually refers to writing either compiled programs or scripts.  Maybe in some circles in implies one more than the other, but you can't depend on that.