Coding has typically been understood as an engineering practice, where the meaning of code has discrete boundaries as a technology that does precisely what it says. Multidisciplinary code studies reframed this technological perspective by positing code as the latest form of writing, where code’s meaning is always partial and dependent on situational factors. Building out from this premise, this article theorizes coding as a form of writing with data through a qualitative case study of a web developer’s coding on a data-journalism team. I specifically theorize code as a form of intermediary writing to examine how his coding to process and analyze data sets involved the construction and negotiation of emergent problems throughout his coding tasks. Findings suggest how he integrated previous coding experience with an emerging sense of how code helped him write and revise the data. I conclude by considering the implications of these findings and discuss how writing and code studies could develop mutually informative approaches to coding as a situated and relational writing activity.

编码通常被理解为一种工程实践，在这种实践中，代码的含义具有离散的界限，因为它是一种精确执行其所声明内容的技术。多学科代码研究通过将代码定位为最新的写作形式，重新定义了这种技术观点，其中代码的含义始终是局部的，并且取决于情况因素。从这个前提出发，本文将编码理论化为一种写数据的形式通过对Web开发人员在数据新闻团队中进行编码的定性案例研究。我专门将代码理论化为一种中介写作形式，以检查他处理和分析数据集的编码在整个编码任务中如何涉及紧急问题的构造和协商。研究结果表明，他如何将以前的编码经验与对代码如何帮助他编写和修改数据的新兴意识相结合。最后，我考虑了这些发现的含义，并讨论了写作和代码研究如何开发互惠的方法来将编码作为一种情境性和关系性写作活动来进行。