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by DanBC 5228 days ago
A programmer create algorithms and structures but without using a specific language. Maybe using things like pseudo code or "Jackson Structured Programming" or etc.

A coder will take the work of a programmer and turn it into usable, compilable, code written in a language.

They are often the same person. Often the "programming" is done at the same time as the "coding".

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You are the only person Ive talked to who has such a strict definition for the terms. Everyone else seems to either use them interchangeably or has very loose definitions.