What is the difference between a computer programmer and a software developer?

What is the difference among a software developer, a software programmer, and an application developer?

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    You can add software engineer to the list. None of these terms are rigorously defined, and none are professional titles in the USA. I suppose you could say: Software engineer: engineers software Software developer: develops software Software programmer: programs software Application developer: develops applications You might say that applications are processes that accomplish a task, and that software could be an application, library, API, device driver, kernel module, interrupt handler, etc. I don't think many people make a great distinction between the two.

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