programming

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, program +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹəmɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧gram‧ming

Noun

programming (usually uncountable, plural programmings)

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. The design and scheduling of a performance such as ballet.
   • 2000, Dance Reviews, page 218:

     Now it has become a regular part of City Ballet's programming this season.

4. (computing) The act of writing a computer program.

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

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

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

6. Brain-washing.
7. (psychology) A conditioned response.
   • 2016, David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden, page 142:

     Together with this is the influence of an infinite number of neurotransmitters, neurohormones, environmental hazards, and accidental programmings.

Hyponyms

• broadcast programming
• computer programming

Derived terms

• application programming interface
• aspect-oriented programming
• aspect-oriented programming language
• class-based programming
• contract programming
• dataflow programming
• declarative programming
• defensive programming
• dynamic programming
• embeddable programming
• esoteric programming language
• event-based programming
• event-driven programming
• extreme programming
• functional programming
• generic programming
• genetic programming
• imperative programming
• linear programming
• literate programming
• logic programming
• metaprogramming
• mob programming
• neuro-linguistic programming
• object-based programming
• object-oriented programming
• object oriented programming
• pair programming
• predictive programming
• programming by contract
• programming interface
• programming in the large
• programming in the small
• programming language
• programming socks
• programming style
• prototype-based programming
• prototype-oriented programming
• reactive programming
• return-oriented programming
• skeleton programming
• social programming
• structured programming
• systems programming
• tacit programming
• user-programming
• visual programming language
• voodoo programming

Translations

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

Danish: udsendelse c, sending c Finnish: ohjelmisto (fi)

brain-washing — see brain-washing

act of writing a computer program

Albanian: programim (sq) m Arabic: بَرْمَجَة (ar) f (barmaja) Armenian: ծրագրավորում (hy) (cragravorum) Azerbaijani: proqramlaşdırma Belarusian: праграмава́нне n (prahramavánnje), праграмі́раванне n (prahramíravannje) Bulgarian: програми́ране n (programírane) Catalan: programació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 編程序 / 编程序 (biān chéngxù), 編程 / 编程 (zh) (biānchéng), 程序設計 / 程序设计 (zh) (chéngxù shèjì) Czech: programování n Danish: programmering (da) c Dutch: programmeren (nl) n Estonian: programmeerimine Finnish: ohjelmointi (fi) French: programmation (fr) f Georgian: პროგრამირება (ṗrogramireba) German: Programmierung (de) f, Programmieren n Greek: προγραμματισμός (el) m (programmatismós) Hebrew: תִּכְנוּת (he) m (tikhnut) Hindi: क्रमादेशन m (kramādeśan) Hungarian: programozás (hu) Icelandic: forritun (is) f Indonesian: pemrograman (id) Italian: programmazione (it) f Japanese: プログラミング (ja) (puroguramingu) Kazakh: бағдарламалау (bağdarlamalau) Khmer: ផ្រូក្រាមមីង (phroukraammiing) Korean: 프로그래밍 (peurogeuraeming) Kyrgyz: программалоо (programmaloo) Latvian: programmēšana f Lithuanian: programavimas (lt) m Macedonian: програми́рање n (programíranje) Malay: pengaturcaraan (ms), pemprograman (ms) Mongolian: Cyrillic: программчлал (programmčlal) Norwegian: Bokmål: programmering (no) m or f Nynorsk: programmering f Persian: برنامه‌نویسی (fa) (barnâme-nevisi) Polish: programowanie (pl) n Portuguese: programação (pt) f Romanian: programare (ro) f Russian: программи́рование (ru) n (programmírovanije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: програмирање n Roman: programiranje n Slovak: programovanie (sk) n Slovene: programiranje n Spanish: programación (es) f Swedish: programmering (sv) c Tajik: барноманависӣ (barnomanavisi) Thai: การเขียนโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์ (gaan-kǐian bproo-grɛm kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə) Turkish: programlama (tr) Turkmen: programmirleme Ukrainian: програмува́ння n (prohramuvánnja) Uzbek: programmalashtirish, programmalash (uz) Vietnamese: lập trình (vi)

software

Finnish: ohjelmisto (fi)

Verb

programming

1. present participle and gerund of program
2. present participle and gerund 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