I have seen a lot of self styled people on Nairaland, some claiming to be coders, programmers, but not developers.

Respectfully, without recourse to bullying. What differentiates a programmer from a developer.

I've forgotten

Same Words programmers are developers or are they

Programmer < Developer < Architect

Just a look at the Java certification trail will explain further.

pc guru:

Same Words programmers are developers or are they

the boldened words just answer the question

logica:

Programmer < Developer < Architect

Just a look at the Java certification trail will explain further.

logica not really.

programmer and developer can be used interchangabely

architect is definately a step higher

Pls house, i need explaination on these fields.
Programmer, developer, architect, analyst. Which comes first?

Programming is a subset of Development - a Developer can be a Programmer while a Programmer cannot be a Developer

A programmer is only concerned with the write of codes to achieve a particular functionality which a Developer must have provided from his functional specification

A developer on the other hand is concerned with the breaking down of a business process into 'bunch' of functionalities using some methodologies haveing phases like (analysis, design, etc)

A developer is a broad compared to programmer

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Best answer so far. Thanks.

dGhost:


Programming is a subset of Development - a Developer can be a Programmer while a Programmer cannot be a Developer

A programmer is only concerned with the write of codes to achieve a particular functionality which a Developer must have provided from his functional specification

I remember this definition when i was in uni.

But i think in practice any software development work no matter how small requires some element of analysis and design.

programming is the actual writing of the code and i doubt if there is anyone out there who does tcoding alone these days

Programmers are only concerned about the code while developers encompass many other things.
But at the long run, developers still need programmers to achieve their aim

Programmers-> Strictly coding nothing else. If they do anything that is not coding they get dismissed because they probably did a terrible job at doing it
Developers->Identify a problem, Break the problem into subproblems,design a suitable algorithm, carry out analysis, identify all necessary tools for building a solution(which includes the most suitable programming languages), oversee the design of a system(solution), identify the right implementation method and lastly coin up the most suitable maintenance measures.
So programming is just a very small chunk of system development

This is kinda funny argument, you are who you say you are.

the answer.

Developer is the guy that builds or develops the idea e.g the brains behind nairaland.
A programmer is d guy that codes the tools used for development e.g d guys dat built d core cms nairaland is running on.

In other worlds as a developer u make use of frameworks and tools, modifies dem to create ready to use apps .

While d programmer codes the framework n tools

ugwum007:
Programmers are only concerned about the code while developers encompass many other things.
But at the long run, developers still need programmers to achieve their aim

This thread was created five years ago and you decided to resurrect it on what basis?

Coder are those people that build website with coding language ....why developer are those that developed server....they also developed software or app