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GraceOS. · 2021-06-04T08:02:32.523Z

I see so many out there who refer to themselves as programmers simply because they can write some basic codes. Just like I heard someone say few days back that: I am a programmer😊, I write HTML programming language. 😂😂Hilarious right? I think ...

Maybe unpopular opinion, but this seems like splitting hairs. You're either a developer/programmer/software engineer or you're not.

No, writing HTML and CSS/SCSS/etc. does not make you a developer. Nearly every designer I've worked with does this to a degree but their primary job is a UI/UX designer.

There's nothing wrong with having hard defined boundaries for what is and isn't qualifying. When you start taking interchangeable words for the same thing and try to morph one or two of them to be different but not mutually-exclusive terms you just make things more vague and dilute the meaning behind the words.

But that's just my opinion

Thank you Noah for your opinion!.. the third paragraph of your response almost got me confused though 😸😊

but we can't still overlook the fact that these terms have their meanings.

Ayodele Samuel Adebayo my point is that as long as I've been a developer, coder and programmer have been slang terms for software developer/engineer. Trying to change the term to mean something else doesn't make sense. The more professional titles of developer and engineer are what you see on job postings but in casual conversation, especially with non-programmers, you'd likely refer to your self as a programmer or just a 'developer'.

Programmer, between nice article

💪🏼...Thank you!

Now I know the difference. Thanks for the article, and thanks for the meeting as well. Happy Weekend to you and everyone 😙

Hmm, which I'm I? 🤔

These concepts data structures, problem-solving, algorithms, I won't say I've mastered them but I'll call myself a programmer in Javascript 🙂.

and of the greatteest Programmer ✊.. 😊

Thank you so much for this, I learnt the difference 😊

Thanks for the mention 😊, Nice article, short and informative, I am a programmer at Javascript while a coder at Python 😂

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