An individual who writes application programs in a user organization. Most programmers are application programmers. Contrast with systems programmer. See system development life cycle. THIS DEFINITION ...

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While “programmer” and “software developer” are often used interchangeably, there are in fact some key differences between the two roles, especially in the AV control space. When we refer to AV ...