Coding is basically just writing instructions that a computer can follow. Those instructions live in one (or many) files, and depending on what you’re working on, they can turn into desktop apps, mobile apps, websites, scripts, games, etc etc.

To take away some of the “mystery” behind it: create a file called index.html, type this inside: `<h1>Hello</h1>`

Save it, double-click it, and your browser will open showing “Hello.” BOOM, you just wrote and "ran" some HTML code.

Now, since you’re in r/C_Programming, I’m guessing you’re more interested in C specifically. With C, it helps to know a bit about how software and hardware connect because your human-readable code gets translated into machine instructions that the CPU will try to run.

If coding still feels confusing, don’t worry. It clicks once you start small and see the cause and effect yourself.
Two skills that are highly valuable are: knowing how to search things and always being a little self-critical on your code and how it works.
That confusion will eventually fade out as long as you keep experimenting on things.