The word "coder" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to someone who writes code, especially in the context of computer programming.
Example: "As a skilled coder, she was able to develop the software in record time."
Alternatives: "programmer" or "software developer."
One coder who works on dull business apps during the day said he would now have the skills to experiment with his own mobile apps after work.
Korean characters, and a reference to a known South Korean coder, were found in its code.
But for now WikiLeaks must manage without its founder, who describes himself as its "heart and soul…founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organiser, financier and all the rest".Mr Assange was arrested when he presented himself to police officers in London on the morning of December 7th.
Translators must express technological terms in languages shaped by livestock, farming and fishing, and choose alternatives for culture-specific words such as "cookie", "file" and "mouse".Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria.
And he finds it very rewarding to know that his software is making people's lives a little easier—"something I rarely, if ever, experienced while working in the corporate world".The phenomenon of the homebrew coder is not new, of course.
A red-faced man in a suit harangues one sweating coder: "What can I tell the PM?"This simulation is one of a dozen or so run each year by the Cyber Security Challenge, an outfit funded by government and business that aims to spot whizz kids not yet working in cyber-defence.
The company's sales are expected to reach $1m this year.Another homebrew coder is Nick Bradbury, who lives in Franklin, Tennessee.
It is not hard to interpret these statistics as evidence that, for many Millennials, the stereotype of the geeky coder at a software company, brilliant in his field but unimpressed by corporate culture, still appeals.
The NeuralTalk code was originally designed as a way to automatically caption images - but after some tweaking by American coder and artist Kyle McDonald, it was made to caption live video instead.
Like the head-banging, baby-faced teenagers and the geeky Eighties teenage coder.
In the film Ex Machina, released this week, a young coder finds himself in the company of an attractive robotic female entity named Ava, built by his boss.
