coderewriting

noun
UK /ˈkəʊd rɪˌraɪtɪŋ/
US /ˈkoʊd riˌraɪtɪŋ/

Coderewriting is when you change computer code to make it better or different.

The team spent the afternoon coderewriting to fix the bugs in the game.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. The act of writing a piece of code again from scratch.

Coderewriting from scratch took longer than expected.

3. A school exercise where students improve an existing program.

Our teacher gave us a coderewriting task for homework.

4. Changing code to work on a different computer system.

Coderewriting made the app run on older phones.