computer programmer

1. 1.

   a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs

   Synonymsprogrammercodersoftware engineer

   Broaderengineercomputer user

   Narrowercrackerhackercyber-terrorist

   computer science

Questions about computer programmer

What does computer programmer mean?

computer programmer means "a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs".

What is another word for computer programmer?

Close synonyms include programmer, coder, software engineer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is computer programmer a common word?

computer programmer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.