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PROGRAMMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs
Synonyms:
coder; computer programmer; programmer; software engineer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("programmer" is a kind 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)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "programmer"):
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)
Derivation:
program (write a computer program)
