On: 22% Drop in Programming Jobs

[lesuorac]

IIUC, if I come to you and say I want a website that looks like this slide I drew that makes you a _programmer_. You're mechanically implementing somebody else's design.

If I come to you and say I want to sell these widgets on a website and you develop the website then that makes you a _developer_. You're mechanically implementing your own design.

[nottorp → lesuorac]

> You're mechanically implementing somebody else's design.

Only if the customer also provides the backend design, specifications for all interaction etc etc though.

But that's just a bit of nitpicking.

[lesuorac → nottorp]

> But that's just a bit of nitpicking.

The whole question is about nitpicking though.

If somebody comes to you with a picture of a desired webpage and list of http calls to make for each button on that picture then you're a programmer.

Similar to how if I come to you with say a paragraph in English and I want one in French that makes you a translator not an author.

Sure, not everybody who writes code has this narrow responsibility. The ones that do are programmers though in the eyes of BLS.