What is difference between Software Programmer and software Developer?

Question

What is difference between Software Programmer and software Developer?

Answer 1

They're pretty much the same... they both create programs. It's like asking whether programming is science because it's Computer Science, or is engineering because it's Software Engineering. Kind of a question of philosophy, if anything.

Answer 2

base from your question.

Software programmer is a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software.

A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming or a specialty of project managing including some aspects of software product management.

    * A 'programmer' can be celebrated just for writing code,but a 'developer' could be involved in wider aspects of the software development process such as:

          o Participation in software product definition, including Business case or Gap analysis

          o Specification

          o Requirements analysis

          o Development and refinement of throw-away simulations or prototypes to confirm requirements

          o Feasibility and Cost-benefit analysis, including the choice of application architecture and framework, leading to the budget and schedule for the project

          o Design

          o Code

          o Implementation

          o Authoring of documentation needed by users and implementation partners etc.

          o Testing, including defining/supporting acceptance testing and gathering feedback from pre-release testers

          o Participation in software release and post-release activities, including support for product launch evangelism (e.g. developing demonstrations and/or samples) and competitive analysis for subsequent product build/release cycles

          o Maintenance

    * In a large company there may be employees whose sole responsibility may consist of only one of the phases above. In smaller development environments, a few, or even a single individual might handle the complete process.

Answer 3

programmers code in software developers create