codern.
/ˈkəʊdə/, U.S. /ˈkoʊdər/ 1. A person who or thing which converts a message, set of information, etc., into or out of code, or assigns a code to something for purposes of identification or classification. Also as a modifier.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > conversion into code > one who codes
steganographer1562
cryptographer1641
steganographist1727
cryptographist1821
cryptologist1870
cryptogrammatist1871
cryptogrammist1887
coder1920
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > conversion into code > device
scytale1579
cryptograph1856
coder1920
encoder1944
1920 Rep. Congress. Joint Comm. Reclassification Salaries ii. 822 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (66th Congr., 2nd Sess.: U.S. House of Representatives Doc. 686) I Experience as a Card Punch Operator or a Coder.
1927 Daily Express 14 Sept. 7 A telephone clearing house between all automatic exchanges and the existing manual exchanges, 73 of which have already been specially fitted with coder call indicator apparatus.
1945 ‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor i. 11 We were all designed to be Coders, and were supposed to be rather intelligent than not.
1964 C. Dent Quantity Surv. by Computer iv. 38 It is not necessary for the taker-off to look up the library description... Someone else (the ‘coder’) could do this and merely insert the appropriate reference number (‘code’ number) against the taker-off's description.
1997 Daily Tel. 6 May 15/2 France's 260 Foreign Ministry coders, who decipher top security messages, went on strike yesterday for the first time.
2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Sept. a10/1 Professional coders play an invisible but indispensable role in the health care system, reading through medical records and assigning codes to describe patients' conditions.
2. Computing. A person who writes code for a computer; a programmer.In early use often contrasted with programmer: see quot. 1953.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > programmer
programmer1948
coder1950
computer programmer1955
1950 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 4 48 The BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer) made its debut..at the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation... A staff of programmers and coders arrange these instructions in the proper sequence for carrying out a required computation.
1953 Jrnl. Soc. Industr. & Appl. Math. 1 6 The programmers will plan the strategy to be followed by the machine, and the coders will write the specific instructions for the machine.
1981 InfoWorld 8 June 29/2 Program design and coding are mixtures of art and science, and no two designers or coders work alike.
1992 PC Computing Apr. 88/1 Have you ever watched the way Microsoft coders work in Windows?
2011 Independent 9 July 20/1 Emerging tech companies compete for the hottest coders in town.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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