programmer
Noun
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A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs (synset 110500853)
referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresis a type of:
- applied scientist, engineer, technologist - a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- computer user - a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business
subtypes:- cracker - a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
- hacker - a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
- cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk - a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
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