programming

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: pro‧gram‧ming

Noun

programming (uncountable)

1. (broadcasting) The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme.

   The network changed its programming to mess with DVRs again.

2. brain-washing
3. (computing) The act of writing a computer program.

   Management wanted to know how much programming the project would need.

4. The software that controls a machine, or the logic expressed in such software; operating instructions.

   A robot's programming doesn't allow for love.

Hyponyms

• broadcast programming
• computer programming
• radio programming
• television programming

 

Derived terms

• metaprogramming
• programming language
• user-programming

 

Translations

broadcasting: designing, scheduling, or planning of a radio or TV program

• Finnish: ohjelmisto (fi)

brain-washing — see brain-washing

act of writing a computer program

• Arabic: بَرْمَجَة‎ f (barmaja)
• Armenian: ծրագրավորում (hy) (cragravorum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編程序, 编程序 (biān chéngxù), 編程 (zh), 编程 (zh) (biānchéng), 程序設計 (zh), 程序设计 (zh) (chéngxù shèjì)

• Czech: programování n
• Dutch: programmeren (nl)
• Finnish: ohjelmointi (fi)
• French: programmation (fr)
• Georgian: პროგრამირება (ṗrogramireba)
• German: Programmierung (de) f, Programmieren n
• Greek: προγραμματισμός (el) m (programmatismós)
• Hebrew: תִּכְנוּת‎ (he) m (tichnut)
• Hindi: क्रमादेशन (kramaadeshan)
• Hungarian: programozás (hu)
• Icelandic: forritun (is) f
• Italian: programmazione (it) f

• Japanese: プログラミング (ja) (puroguramingu)
• Macedonian: програмирање n (programíranje)
• Malay: pengaturcaraan, pemprograman
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: programmering (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: programmering f

• Persian: برنامه‌نویسی‎ (fa) (barnâme-nevisi)
• Polish: programowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: programação (pt) f
• Romanian: programare (ro)
• Russian: программи́рование (ru) n (programmírovanije)
• Slovak: programovanie (sk) n
• Spanish: programación (es) f
• Swedish: programmering (sv) c
• Turkish: programlama (tr)
• Vietnamese: lập trình

software

• Finnish: ohjelmisto (fi)

Verb

programming

1. present participle of program
2. present participle of programme

   I was programming a new module for the software package.

   He was programming the VCR.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of computer programming

Further reading

• programming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia