Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

Hacking, programming, engineering, and applying computer science are all different skills, but they get mixed up often. Here are some distinctions. It’s easy to confuse a computer programmer with a ...