The phrase "astute programming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe programming that is clever, insightful, or demonstrates a high level of skill and understanding.
Example: "The developer's astute programming allowed the software to run efficiently even under heavy load."
Alternatives: "clever coding" or "insightful programming."
"Taken" vaulted the fledgling network to the No. 1 spot in cable ratings for two weeks, an early sign of Ms. Hammer's astute programming instincts and of a quality her mentor, Barry Diller, called "a steely resolve".
Talley Beatty's "Caravanserai" has its long moments, but pairing it with William Whitener's "Tito on Timbales" is astute programming as well as a lesson in how disparate influences can create distinctive style.
WHATEVER else it may accomplish, "1969," the latest thematic project of the contemporary-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, proves that you can build something substantial — a historically astute program that makes solid, provocative points — around a notion thoroughly lacking in substance.
Not "L'Elisir d'Amore," a point emphasized in the astute program notes by the conductor Will Crutchfield for the concert performance of the opera at the Caramoor Festival here on Saturday night, the first of two offerings in this summer's Bel Canto at Caramoor series.
As evidence he pointed to Britain, which after a hiatus in submarine production has had to hire Electric Boat to fix its troubled Astute-class program.
The program included some astute song pairings.
"Financial reform laws have put a focus on having financially astute people on boards," said a program fellow, Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, a senior vice president at Charles Schwab & Company, who is the daughter of the firm's founder, Charles Schwab.
TV has almost no programs that show attractive, astute technical women in favorable roles.
The program lost its place largely as a result of blunders by the program's former owner, Novell, and astute marketing by Microsoft, which figured out before anyone else that programs packaged in office suites were popular.
Reversing such a free fall into third-world decline requires astute economic reform and a demand-management program of infrastructure revitalization.
Between them he offered another of the subtler highlights of his program, a rich-hued, emotionally astute interpretation of the "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," in Liszt's finger-breaking arrangement.
