The phrase "a number of programmers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an unspecified quantity of programmers, typically indicating that there are several involved in a particular context.
Example: "A number of programmers collaborated on the new software project to ensure its success."
Alternatives: "several programmers" or "many programmers".
A number of programmers, in fact, have developed their own home-brew challenge-response systems, and so have several small companies including Mailcircuit and Frontier.
Beginning in about 2000, Microsoft convinced a number of programmers that the same programs they were writing for Windows could run almost as well on a phone.
For instance, our data from India alone points to 12 schools from where a number of programmers have performed on par with students from the Ivies, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon or MIT.
We discuss a number of programmers, in Managing Teacher Costs for Access and Quality iii most of which UNICEF has been directly involved.
"If you get a number of computer programmers who are moving to the United States, as we do under the H-1B program, … then computer programmers' earnings are either going to be hurt or not rise as much as otherwise," agreed Friedman's fellow economics Nobelist and University of Chicago faculty colleague Gary Becker in a lecture.
Its registration for Toca's Miracle includes a number of studio programmers as "featured artists" as well as another vocalist.
A number of smart programmers have developed word processing, spreadsheet, calendar and other software that you operate while in a Web browser.
Obviously VisuaMobile makes their money on iPhone apps and this is a brave new business model that, in a sense, uses Apple's good will and popularity to boost the bottom lines of a number of successful programmers.
The role in future will be shared between a number of artist-programmers.
There are a great number of universities that are graduating a consistent number of programmers equal in skill to your average Stanford grad, though the average student might not be comparable with the Ivies.
