A person who codes Web pages and server programs. Web programmers are typically thoroughly familiar with HTML and XML and some number of languages, including JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, Java, Python, ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

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Whether you're considering a career change or are just embarking on a career path, computer programming and its advantages might be the career you seek. Because computers are so common in the 21st ...

Swedish developer Henrik Warne wrote a nice piece last week about his top 5 surprises when he started as a software developer, 20 or so years ago. It made me harken back to my beginnings as a ...

No offense to any “real” programmers reading this, but you are a special breed – and you know it. Of all the various “sorcerers” in the IT trade, programmers have been the most mysterious for the ...