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Its not programming but it is still coding.

I would have said the opposite; programming is setting up instructions (in whatever form, including pre-formatted visual blocks), while coding is writing up said instructions. The difference lies in whether or not you write the instructions.

Weird: I have just checked if my interpretations were correct, and while the Wiktionary agrees with me, Dictionary.com defines both term exactly the same way! (By the way, it looks like Lexico is now redirecting to Dictionary.com.)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/program#Verb

1. (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/code#Verb

1. (computing) To write software programs.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/program

10 Digital Technology. to write code for (a computer program or application).

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/code

18 Computers. to write computer code.

Also checking Merriam-Webster, since you mention it in a further comment: ah, I see it does use the same interpretation as I do! :)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/program

2: to work out a sequence of operations to be performed by (a mechanism, such as a computer) : to provide with a program

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/code

2: to create or edit computer code

I guess scripting would have been a better word