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 ...

It's actually not abstract. It's rather specific. Programming is the art of instructing a really-really-really dumb kid. You have to be specific. You have to be detailed. Most of all, you need to be ...

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 ...