Being a Good Developer is a dream of most of the computing lovers. But they all need better guidance first of all to reach that dream. They must have a clear idea about what they are doing and what they are going to do. Just by knowing to write a simple code no one can be a good programmer or a developer. Or knowing just one or two programming languages and some coding techniques won't make anyone a good programmer or a good developer. Some may get a job with those few things they know. But there's a huge difference between a developer and a good developer. The values of a good developer are at a higher level than a normal developer who gets a job with the knowledge of a few things about programming.
Developer vs Programmer || Are they Same?
Ok. So when it comes to Programming these two words are being used among the people who are engaged in developing a software or any kind of a computer application. But actually, is the meaning of those words are same? Or else what is the difference? Have you ever concerned about that before? Maybe yes, maybe no. So the difference between a developer and a programmer is the first thing that anyone should know if they want to be one of those good developers all around the world.
Developer
A developer is someone who has a larger scope than a programmer when working on a project. Developers have a better understanding of the project than the programmers. They know more about the user requirements, functionalities of the outcome, design of the outcome, what are the resources that should be used &, etc. Developers are involved in researching, planning, designing, coding, testing and debugging, implementation of the final output, maintenance, preparing the related documents & many more when it comes to completing a project. Developers are also known as Software Engineers.
Programmer
A programmer is someone who is involved in a certain part of the project. Maybe they just code a part of the complete project and that's all. Basically, a programmer is the one who is mainly involved only in coding. They are not involved in planning or designing. They just convert the design they get into a code that the computers can understand and return it after testing & debugging. Programmers are also known as Engineers or Coders.
There are many types of programmers in the computing world.
1. Application Programming : Write programs for specific tasks
Eg. Programs to track daily sales of a shop
2. System Programming : Write programs to maintain computer systems software
Eg. Operating Systems, Database Management Systems
3. AI/ Machine Learning Engineers
4. Game Programming
5. Mobile Application Programming (Mobile Development)
6. Web Application Programming (Web Development)
Mainly, programmers are differentiated into many categories as above according to the programming language knowledge they have. If a programmer is good in Java/ Kotlin they are focusing on Mobile Programming. But if someone is good in desktop application developing languages such as C# & etc. they can focus on Application Programming. Likewise, it mainly depends on how good someone in programming languages is. We will talk a little bit detailed about the types of Programming in our next article.
"All the Developers/ Software Engineers are Programmers. But not all the Programmers can be Developers/ Software Engineers"
So, today in this article we talked about how to identify the differences between a Software Engineer/ Developer and a Programmer. Knowing this difference is just one fact that makes your way a little bit clear to be a good developer. In the next articles, we will be talking about many more facts that affect on you, things that you should know and go through on your way to become a good developer.
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ReplyDeletethis was very informative, and very useful!I honestly did not know that a difference exist! thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteA very informative post. I was always curious what the difference between these was, and you’ve broken it down nicely.
ReplyDeleteTerms can be really confusing. Students going to uni certainly need to know these differences.
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ReplyDeleteVery informative post. This is a common confusion people usually have.
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ReplyDeleteAh! Most of us thought developer and programmer have the same roles. This is crisp and clear.
ReplyDeleteI previously thought the terms were interchangeable! Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteThank You for clearing this out. Good to know!
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