Source code is what a software author writes when she/he creates a program. One of two things can happen after the source is written: the program can be run with the computer "interpreting" every piece of the source code as it runs into it, or the source code can be compiled into something that the computer understands natively.

This is meant to point you towards all things code, well at least in the sense of source code. Try the Cryptology Meta-node for that other code. There's quite a bit on here about code, so keep on me so I don't fall behind.

This was so funny, I had to put it first: I'm a little source code short and stout, here is my input here is my out

Guides/books
• tftv256's guide to coding
• Code: and other laws of cyberspace

code
• source code (you are here), object code
• native code
• byte code, Java code
• hard code, soft code
• spaghetti code
• kernel code
• client code, server code
• Gray code -- from genetic programming
• deCSS -- arguably the most controversial code yet
• Redcode, Code Red
• fund code
• phlat code
• node code
• code bloat, which usually comes from creeping featuritis
• code coverage
• code complete
• good code, bad code, really beautiful code
• when good code goes bad
• how many lines of code have you written?
• HTML typing is NOT coding

Verbing
• writing code, coding, autocoding
• code-wise
• The Laws of Coding
• coding music
• coding drunk, programming fluid, wirewater
• Coding a Transhuman AI -- a short node on some project to create an uber-AI. Worth a look.
• JIT coding
• Code Central
• Source code as speech

Commenting code
• God comments his code, you should too
• Why programmers don't comment their code
• Amusing comments in source code
• comment-to-code ratio

People
• coders
• But who codes the coders?
• code nazi
• coding slaves, code janitors
• Code monkey
• software that codes software

Things to do to code:
• compile, programs that don't compile
• decompile
• reverse engineer
• test
• debug, lint
• patch and kernel patch
• code tweak
• version control, revision control, Visual SourceSafe
• code signing
• Using source control inside Emacs
• fifty ways to hose your code
• New Source Code Formatter for E2! (superdoc)

Source for what ails you
• "Windows source code"
• Windows Source Code
• Microsoft Source Code
• Everything 2 Source Code
• Everything Source Code
• Everything FAQ: Can I get the Everything source code?
• Everything FAQ: Where is the source code?
• Source code to "Everything in the rest of the world"
• the source code of my brain
• Source Code to Life
• BSD Code in Windows
• ELIZA source code in BASIC
• the source code of my brain
• An example of Nintendo source code
• DeCSS source: Part 1, DeCSS source: Part 2
• code for the everything bot

OS's that you can get the code for
• Linux
• FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
• BeOS
• Darwin -- It's open source, I think.
• Windows 95 source code
• What will occur the day after Windows NT becomes Open Source
• If the Windows source code was leaked, what do you think would happen?
• compfaq: Q:02.09 - Is the source code MS-DOS available?

Dogma
• open source
• closed source
• Give me assembly language, or give me death!
• my code can kick your code's ass

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Back to the Programming Metanode

The source code for many programs not human readable. There are a number of reasons for this:

• The source code is in APL or another write only programming language
• The source code is Wizard generated source code from MFC, VCL or similar IDL.

A compiler (or language translator) has an input language which is a higher level language compare to it's output language. The input language is called source code. If there were reason in the world the output language would be called sink code, but there isn't, so it isn't.

Thus the YACC takes YACC source code and generates C, this C is not source code to YACC but is source code to a C compiler.