Other forms: programmers
A programmer is a person who writes the code that makes computers do things. A junior programmer, hire programmers, a good programmer.
The first ones were women, and programming was thought clerical work until it turned out to be difficult and the pay and the prestige followed. Most of the job is reading and changing what already exists rather than writing new code.
1nounprogrammerA person who writes computer code.
“The programmer stayed up all night fixing a bug in the app.”
programmer is a job.
Also accepted in games: developer, coder
Program plus -er, from Greek programma, a public notice — pro, before, plus graphein, to write.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Ancient Greek
πρόγραμμα — a written public notice, an edict
Latin
programma — a proclamation, edict
French
programme
English
program
English, today
programmer
Built from
*program + -er US / programme + -er UK program French programme, from Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (“a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (“to set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (“before”) + γράφω (“to write”). a doublet of programma.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA