programmer

noun

pro·gram·mer | \ ˈprō-ˌgra-mər

, -grə-\

variants: or less commonly programer

Definition of programmer

: one that programs: such as

a : a person who prepares and tests programs for devices (such as computers)

b : one that programs a mechanism

c : one that prepares an instructional program

d : a person who plans or prepares entertainment programs a television programmer

Examples of programmer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The workers alliance, also known as WashTech, represents computer programmers and argues that OPT participants compete against U.S. tech workers for jobs. — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, "H-1B: Judge revives lawsuit seeking to kill foreign-student work permit, allows input from Big Tech and outsourcers," 5 July 2019 But earlier this year, the founder of the free streaming site Le Cinéma Club, Marie Louise Khondji, and her co-programmer, Bingham Bryant, found and bought a Japanese VHS version on eBay. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "What to Stream This Weekend: A Claire Denis Car Commercial, Rescued from Obscurity," 14 June 2019 In 2017, a programmer for the Multi-State Lottery Association got up to 25 years in prison for rigging a computer program to enable him to pick winning numbers in games in Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa and Oklahoma between 2005 and 2011. — Bob Christie, The Seattle Times, "Growing number of states move to shield lottery winners," 13 Apr. 2019 During her freshman year, Stephanie Tena, a 16-year-old programmer, was searching the internet for coding programs and came across a website for an organization called AI4All, which runs an artificial-intelligence summer camp for high-schoolers. — Lauren Smiley, The Atlantic, "The Future of AI Depends on High-School Girls," 23 May 2018 In other words, the AI doesn't ultimately decide what makes a good picture; its programmers, informed by photography experts, do. — David Pogue, Scientific American, "The “Clips” Camera Just Might Be the Weirdest Product Ever," 1 May 2018 And the higher-income jobs that are created, like software programmers, require skills that those who have been laid off simply don't have. — Raghuram Rajan For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, "We can't rely on national governments to save failing communities. It's time for a new approach," 18 June 2019 His father is a senior computer programmer in Jerusalem for the Israeli government’s land-allocation department. — New York Times, "Marnita Robertson, Yigal Rechtman," 20 May 2018 There was one programmer in New York who really helped me by programming my crazy movies in an Asian-American film fest. — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, "Film An interview with Jon Moritsugu, director of Mod Fuck Explosion," 10 May 2018

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