- Application development - Designing and coding your desired application used by humans to solve a particular practical problem. For example, the developers in a company IT department may write a tool designed to help the sales staff manage sales data. The term applications development usually implies non-Web based software. The most common languages used by applications developers are Java, Visual Basic, VB.NET, and C#.
- System development - Designing and coding software which works behind the scenes. For example, several thousand engineers who work at Microsoft developing the Windows operating system are systems developers. A subcategory is API development, where engineers write code which is intended to be used by other developers who are writing application programs. The most common languages used by systems developers are C and C++.
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