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 ...

What is a software developer? A developer – also known as a programmer, coder or software engineer – is an IT professional who uses programming languages to create computer software. What do software ...

Ever since Ada Lovelace, a polymath often considered the first computer programmer, proposed in 1843 using holes punched into cards to solve mathematical equations on a never-built mechanical computer ...