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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#m1)

2) A programmer can also be a person who plans programmes for TV or radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x1)
- Programmers write code. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x2)
- We were programmers in computing class today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x3)
- The game was made by a team of programmers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x4)
- A programmer fixes bugs in the code. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x5)
- He wants to be a games programmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x6)
- Programmers use loops and variables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x7)
- The programmer tested the program carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «programmer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/programmer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.