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2023-06-17 Programmer?

In increasing order of formality:
- Coder refers to someone who engages in the act of writing source code and has a very casual, possibly even negative connotation.
- A programmer refers to someone who writes software, which has a neutral connotation.
- Developer or dev refers to someone who develops software, which may or may not involve writing it, but probably does.
- Software engineer and computer scientist are more formal terms for those with degrees or other professional qualifications.
- SE is a commonly used abbreviation in speech for a software engineer, but CS is only used for computer science itself, not the people who practice it.

Notes

Generally the preferred term would be programmer.
Coder has a negative implication: that the person only does unchallenging, trivial work.
A few years ago the word programmer was the only widely used word. Now the trend is to use developer.

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