Applications Programming
This is what most non-techies think of when you mention the word programming.[1] It’s probably the broadest category we’ll consider in this chapter.
It is programming applications—self-contained programs—typically for single-user, workstation-like computers. This world focuses on end users and how they use their desktop machines. For commercial reasons, we usually target the mainstream platforms—currently Windows and Mac OS. Although you hear a lot about Linux programming these days, that’s still not where the applications work is (at least, at the time of writing). As portable devices become more powerful and their application development environments become richer, mobile applications work has moved from the embedded ...
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