programmer

«programmer» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who writes computer programs: instructions that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a programmer, programmers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A programmer is a person who writes computer programs: instructions that tell a computer what to do. tree →

2) A programmer can also be a person who plans programmes for TV or radio. tree →

sense in the lessons

In computing lessons pupils learn to be programmers, writing code in Scratch, Python and other languages. In everyday life programmers make apps, games and websites. Phrases: «computer programmer», «game programmer».

examples

• My mum is a programmer who makes apps. tree →
• Programmers write code. tree →
• We were programmers in computing class today. tree →
• The game was made by a team of programmers. tree →
• A programmer fixes bugs in the code. tree →
• He wants to be a games programmer. tree →
• Programmers use loops and variables. tree →
• The programmer tested the program carefully. tree →

note

Double «m». US also «programer» (rare). «Program» is used for computers everywhere; UK uses «programme» for TV shows and plans.

In the corpora

• Thousands of people worked on Apollo, including the mathematician Katherine Johnson and the programmer Margaret Hamilton.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «programmer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.