Computer programmers write, test, and maintain the detailed instructions, called programs or at higher-level software, that lays down a set of instruction for computers that it must follow to perform some specific function. They also conceive, design, and test
logical structures for solving problems by computer. They develop and write computer programs to store, locate and retrieve specific documents, data, and information. They may program websites too.
They do this by converting project specifications and statement of problems and procedures to detailed logical charts for coding into computer language.
To be an efficient programmer, one must possess logically thinking capability apart from having a deep-rooted motivation, willingness from the bottom of the heart to work and needs integrity, productivity, team spirit and efficient time management.
1. Reading and writing capability:
An efficient programmer always reads the instructions and needs mentioned in the requirement carefully before proceeding to any step. It is important to understand the work related documents thoroughly. Communicating effectively with others in writing as indicated by the needs of the audience.
2. Designing and sequencing:
This step involves a programmer to be able to think what should come sequentially after other beforehand? What should happen after this has happened or if this particular situation arises? Before a programmer sits to write the actual code he must be able to visualize and design on paper the actual flow of the instructions in the form of flow chart. Candidates who can easily grasp the concepts behind a flow chart will tend to have an easier time understanding and developing a computer program, since they will have a deeper understanding of the computational processes that are involved.
3. Syntax:
Every language has a set pattern to write a program in it, just like the French language has a set pattern of framing a sentence, a word for expressing something. This in computer language is said as the syntax that is the way of writing the program in a language. A
computer programmer must be able to demonstrate the ability to think logically and to recognize patterns that exist in apparent chaos.
4. Logically thinking capability:
One doesn't have to be a great mathematician or physician while solving a computer problem. It is just the logical ability of the programmer to structure or classify the multiple pieces of the information and to troubleshoot a computer process in the manner, as
they should have happened sequentially otherwise. That is deductive reasoning. And in doing this, information technology shares the same problem-solving principles that form the core of math and logic.
5. Miscellaneous:
A little knowledge about the electronic circuit boards, processors and other general information can add more efficiency to programmers working style and code writing capability. How so ever strong your programming skills might be, everything
fails when you cannot deliver efficiently to others. Therefore it is must for a programmer to have a good ability to communicate the information and ideas to others, properly and clearly. Similarly he must be able to understand the information and ideas presented
through spoken words and sentences and the need of the program to be written down.
Thus a programmers ability and creativity to generate a program or may be its smallest unit can be completely measured by estimating the above skills.
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