What Do Programmers Do, Anyway? Computer programmers design, develop and test software and ensure software adheres to best practices in performance, reliability and security. Computer programmers can ...

Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors. But now programming jobs are plummeting. The Post’s Department of Data tries to figure out what’s going on.

AI makers are flooding the market with a new wave of coding agents promising to relieve human programmers of busy work. The big picture: Automating the routine aspects of technical labor will ...

In the government’s schema, programmers do the grunt work while the much more numerous — and much faster-growing — software developers enjoy a broader remit.

Opinion: Sloppiness and disdain for good style are sometimes chic in the software underground, but we'd all be in trouble if malware authors really thought through how to write a good worm.

Programming in the weekend and nights keeps me sharp and helps me do my day job. I once had a software engineering job, and hated it—now I love programming again.” ...

Memory safe programming is becoming a bigger concern. Find out why, what the C++ community is doing, and other safe languages.

Programmers who swear may be more emotionally engaged with their work than those who don’t, Bergen hypothesized, which could lead them to produce higher-quality products.

Computer programmers work hand in hand with software developers and engineers, and some of their job functions can overlap, according to the BLS. Other duties of computer programmers include: Writing ...