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When someone says "coder", I immediately think of someone doing HTML, CSS and basic JS while writing all these beginner tutorials on dev.to or medium.
Coder != Programmer for me, sorry! -
Root772315yI agree. “Coder” just sounds dumb. Honestly, I prefer “developer” or “software engineer” to “programmer.” -
Root772315y@M3m35terJ05h Nah, he’s just a really big Call of Duty fan. Has the limited edition hat and everything. -
Coder is someone who encodes. Encodes what? Idk and idgaf.
Programmers program a machine to do something.
Engineers come up with a solution that the program can solve.
Some people do all of the above. What are they? -
@GyroGearloose app is short for application program or application software, terms from 1960s
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do not use the word coder please.
if you write code, you're a programmer. if you call yourself a coder, you're either a sixth grader who just learned about the terminal, or an idiot.
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