HUMOR

10 Hilarious Programming Jokes to Make You Laugh Hard

Jokes that will instantly make your day better, even if you are not a programmer

Lokajit Tikayatray
Published in
5 min readAug 5, 2021

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A software programmer working on their computer with a coffee cup and a cat on the table.
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Programmers love their job. And, why not! They are trying to make the world a better place, one software at a time.

Software development is a demanding but exciting profession. Every developer knows how to work hard and simultaneously how to have fun in their day-to-day work. That’s what makes a programmer’s life so exhilarating.

Here I present you ten hilarious events from these brilliant developers’ life in the form of jokes and comic strips. Please sit back and enjoy. I am sure some of these jokes will make you laugh your head off.

Caution: If you are drinking hot beverages, please put them down safely before reading further.

0. Deadline PUB-G style

Credit: MokeyUser

There is no fun in a software project without a deadline. Deadlines keep the programmers on their toes. The closer it gets, the harder programmers work to complete their assignments.

Oh wait, the joke is not finished yet. Read till the bonus joke at the end to see what happens next to the programmer.

1. You are limited only by your imagination

Credit: MonkeyUser

Playing by the rule, programmers need to develop the application based on the given specification. That means someone has to detail the requirement unambiguously in the specs, which rarely happens.

Vague requirement specs give the developers the freedom to make their own assumptions. Well, let’s call it more of creativity than assumption. The above illustration shows what happens when developers try to be creative.

2. 52% of developers will sometimes code in their dreams

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