That seems only to be a problem for native English speakers. Programming, coding, hacking, tinkering, etc... is all pretty much the same. Also, personally I think it has an elitism smell ('software engineering' is the worst). We shouldn't pretend that a 'professional software engineer' fresh from university can in any way produce better code than an 'amateur' who's at it for 20 years, because in my experience the experienced amateur is always a better programmer/coder/whatever...
I don't agree (and I don't agree with the whole cooking analogy). Writing code that is readable, maintainable, simple yet high-performing is a very important if not the most important part of the whole craft. We don't need high-flying words like 'engineering', 'art' or 'architecture' for writing good code. A great high-level design is worthless if the actual code is an unreadable mess, and I have seen plenty examples of this in the real world.
