Programmer

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Computer programmer

Betty Jennings and Fran Bilas, part of the first ENIAC programming team
Occupation
Names	Computer Programmer
Occupation type	Profession
Activity sectors	Information technology, Software industry
Description
Competencies	Writing and debugging computer code
Education required	Varies from apprenticeship to bachelor's degree, or self-taught

A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates computer programs — often for larger computer software.

A programmer is someone who writes/creates computer software or applications by providing a specific programming language to the computer. Most programmers have extensive computing and coding experience in many varieties of programming languages and platforms, such as Structured Query Language (SQL), Perl, Extensible Markup Language (XML), PHP, HTML, C, C++ and Java.

A programmer's most often-used computer language (e.g., Assembly, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Lisp, Python, Java, etc.) may be prefixed to the aforementioned terms. Some who work with web programming languages may also prefix their titles with web.