And why all the panic about "open" source codes, and them being revealed?
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It's just the human readable code prior to being compiled into machine readable code or an executable format. Literally just the code people write for the application to work. If it's revealed to the public then we can see how it works and determine if there is any political bias in the algorithms.
So are the terms "code" and "source code" interchangeable?
Maybe. It depends on the context. "Source code" implies something that humans can read and write. It can also imply having all the programming files necessary for building or compiling a particular application. For example, you can go to github.com and download the source code for all kinds of applications.
Simply using "code" can imply those things too, but it can be ambiguous. It can mean machine code, or binary code, or just a piece of code, etc.
HTH!
It does. I got a bunch of good answers, and this one adds useful context. Funny thing is I had to look up HTH.