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People who don't program think it's mostly typing. They see hackers on TV always furiously pounding on the keyboard, never staring at terminal outputs or talking to a rubber duck.
Or sometimes they think it's moving 3d shapes on a screen until they fit together, and to show how difficult it is, the entire thing will fall apart during the hacking/programming montage.
Though to be fair, I don't think the producers of that media think it's like that. Trying to put actual programming on the screen would probably be boring unless it was just a montage of reactions, starting with an overwhelmed look, followed by confidence or pride, followed by a completely baffled look and wtf expressions, then a "fuck I was stupid when I wrote this yesterday" look, then maybe a bigger wtf and physically acting out frustration, then a eureka look, all followed by a satisfied smile and nodding as the montage music ends and another character says, "I can't believe it's finally done and hasn't crashed in 30 minutes!" Though I bet that would be more entertaining for programmers who can relate to the stages of development and debug than non-programmers.
The bit in Big Hero 6 with the video records of Tadashi inventing Baymax are about as close to this as I've ever seen in a sci fi action movie.
The first paragraph or the second one?
Swordfish is the one I was thinking of for the first paragraph. I might check out Big Hero 6 either way because both versions would be fun to see lol.
The second one!