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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'
by lesuorac 2y ago
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 2y ago> 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 2y ago> 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.