Programmer Danielle Sucher wrote this dispatch for us from New York's Hacker School. I left my law practice to do a three-month, full-time coding retreat ... to pair program and concentrate ...

But the related terms you see online are confusing. What is coding compared with programming or even terms like software engineering? The differences are big, and the terms are often muddled together.

"Software development -- it continues to be one of the hottest fields. Programing and coding skills are great to have to enter this profession." Myrben added, "Big data such as data science ...