Tuesday, March 3, 2009

What Does a Computer Programmer Do?

The world of computers revolves around software and hardware. As far as software development is concerned it really revolves around a software development cycle. A perfect software team requires a software analyst, a software designer, program tester, debugger and a programmer. The entire team members are important but the programmer is among the most important team member of the team. They are the surgeons because their job can be compared with surgery. They code the design and analysis related to the software. Once the coding is completely done, the software takes the final shape.

The team members are linked with each other throughout the process. I must tell you that the programmer is the central team member and every body else depends upon him. Even a slight change in design leads to a great change in coding. Coding is the most important part of a software development cycle. The analyst explain what he wants to the designer who designs the software and the SRS document is then submitted to the programmer who do the required coding according to the SRS document.

On what things does the programmer works?

The programmers work on programming languages. The top programming language up till today is java and its versions, .net technologies, C, C++, Logo, and Pascal and so on. If you want to become a programmer you can work on any of the above technologies. You just need to learn a programming language and then you will be able to do the coding. All the ideas are provided by the analyst and designers and you will just be asked to give a list of coding available for that idea. For example you might be asked to provide a coding of login applet in a particular design. Your job will be to code the applet. The coding in the past was a very tedious job. But now many IDE environments are available which reduces the labor. I must tell you that it took at least 10 to 12 months to make a website but now due to the emergence of IDE environments it hardly takes more than few days or months.

Employment opportunities for programmer:

The employment opportunity for programmer is great and the jobs are available in numbers. You can go through any job site and you will find that the java, .net etc programmers are required in plenty. As far as salary is concerned, the average salaries of the programmer are around $75000. The fresher are offered the pay scale of around $45000. Some very skilled programmers earn even more.

I must tell you that you will find programming as a weapon and you will definitely enjoy doing this job. You will always improve if you decide to join this field.

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