manualcoding
nounUK /ˈmæn.ju.əl ˈkəʊ.dɪŋ/
US /ˈmæn.ju.əl ˈkoʊ.dɪŋ/
Writing computer code by hand instead of letting a tool do it for you.
The teacher showed us manualcoding by typing every line ourselves.
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2. Doing a task by hand rather than with a machine or automation.
Manual coding of the labels took all afternoon.
3. In health records, assigning codes to medical notes by a person rather than software.
The clinic switched from manual coding to an automated system.
4. The old practice of writing machine instructions directly without a compiler.
Early programmers did manual coding in binary.