How to Use programmer in a Sentence

programmer

noun
Definition of programmernext
  • Because the programmer leaves a part of himself in the code.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
  • Contrast that to the rush to recruit coders during the tech boom and all the perks offered to programmers.
    — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2024
  • But programmers do this kind of sharing all the time in their software.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Koch first joined the Film Society in 1971 as a programmer for its Movies in the Parks series.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Stepan worked as a freelance programmer for clients abroad, while Maxim had a job in IT.
    — J. Lester Feder, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
  • For the lead programmer and her team, the selection process began last June.
    — cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The programmer, who goes by the name Nao_u, created the 2D game over a three-day period.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it.
    — Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But a maker—say, a programmer or writer—needs at least half a day to get real work done.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Initially, the single programmer was just as good as the teams.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Robert grew up in San Jose, where his dad worked as a computer programmer.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • As a programmer, what genres best lend themselves most to this?
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • Remember, programmers can only watch a film for the first time once.
    — John Nein, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • In lieu of a real Neeson programmer to soothe the January blues, Plane will do.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Rather, a human programmer feeds it a vast amount of online data that’s kept on a server.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • His dad is a civil engineer, and his mom was a programmer.
    — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • There are many types of AI that can be leased without needing to hire a programmer or messing with big data.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Simon, a Chengdu native who moved to the U.S. at the age of twenty-five (his first home for a few months was in Elmhurst), is a computer programmer.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Describing the slate in just a few words is both difficult and easy, said senior programmer John Nein.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Now, knowing Python is the equivalent of table stakes for a programmer.
    — Ulrik Juul Christensen, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • As a programmer, director, and dude who has crashed on Tim League’s couch, Timpson knows that better than most.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • So far this year, the track has gotten the fourth-most adds on its radio impact date (the day radio programmers can add a single to rotation).
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Back in the day, limited compute resources forced programmers to write lean code.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
  • After meeting with the Databricks team a decade ago, Horowitz handed the startup $14 million for its Series A to get the ball rolling—a sizable check for a team of academics and programmers.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On a brisk morning in Düsseldorf, Mario Klingemann, a 53-year-old artist and programmer, boarded a train to Munich.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But the Screen Actors Guild strike has cut to the very core of these festivals’ identities, forcing programmers to create pizazz out of movie choice alone.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The cut could continue to be a big win on certain rankings if streams pick up, or if the tune attracts the attention of radio programmers.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In their minds, a programmer is a boy in a hoodie alone in the basement or a man running a company in Silicon Valley.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Many programmers have signed with VideoAmp or other emerging measurement players like iSpot, though in most cases those deals are non-exclusive, leaving Nielsen still in the mix.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Radio programmers, who often rely on listener comments to determine the level of public acceptance, and all types of DJs are forced to reassess when sticky situations occur.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024

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