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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (ISBN 1-430-21948-3) is a 2009 book by Peter Seibel comprising interviews with 15 highly accomplished programmers. The primary topics in these interviews include how the interviewees learned programming, how they debug code, their favorite languages and tools, their opinions on literate ...
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a publication of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations in the United States.
In addition, the BLS Job Outlook for Computer Programmers, 2014–24 has an −8% (a decline, in their words), [28] then a Job Outlook, 2019-29 of -9% (Decline), [29] then a 10% decline for 2021-2031 [29] and now an 11% decline for 2022-2032 [29] for those who program computers (i.e. embedded systems) who are not computer application developers.
The term "computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613), [1] meant "one who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before calculators became available.
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code – someone with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer are used for jobs that require a programmer.
Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike - The Practice of Programming; Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming; Ellen Ullman - Close to the Machine; Ellis Horowitz - Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms; Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming; Gerald M. Weinberg - The Psychology of Computer Programming; James Gosling - The Java Programming Language
[57] [50] In addition, the BLS Job Outlook for Computer Programmers, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Outlook predicts a decline of -7 percent from 2016 to 2026, a further decline of -9 percent from 2019 to 2029, a decline of -10 percent from 2021 to 2031. [57] and then a decline of -11 percent from 2022 to 2032. [57]
The magazine said that the book was not easy to read, but that it would expose experienced programmers to both old and new topics. [ 8 ] A review of SICP as an undergraduate textbook by Philip Wadler noted the weaknesses of Scheme as an introductory language for a computer science course. [ 9 ]