The word programming mans multiple things to me. Programming first and foremost I think about writing physical code on a blank text document. This can be any code really, all the way from C++ to HTML/CSS. The major thing when I think about when the word code is brought up is the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). I really like how a company like Google can create such a vast amount of coding and APIs and work with other people to create it. I myself want to try to create about the same thing. You code something by very simply opening a blank text edtor like notepad++, Brackets, Atom, etc. Now in the greater sense of coding, you need to learn the programming language first for whatever project you are doing. This is simply like learning another human language like french, english , etc. A computer language has it's own way to write it called syntax (like grammar in a sentence). Everything else really just falls into place.