What's a good, non-meme term to use for someone who's amazingly good with programs, hacking, coding, etc.?
I'm writing a story where the protag is a young genius who can do all of that. But having him call himself a Computer Scientist or some shit just doesn't seem fitting.
Jose Sanchez
"autist"
William Butler
cyber security engineer
Gabriel Nguyen
tech savvy tech genius
Kevin King
Um, a hacker might be the term you're looking for.
Justin Garcia
This is a really good one, thanks.
Those are casual names that others would refer to the character as, but I'm looking for something more legit sounding that he uses to refer to himself.
Caleb Turner
Go Shakespear on it: make something up that sounds computer-expert-hacky!
Nathaniel Gonzalez
I was considering that, and still am, if I can think of something good.
Logan Howard
software ninja wizard programmer
(these are real job titles)
Kevin Howard
tech savant
sounds as gay as the story
Cooper Perez
Only real way to slice it is to call them a programmer and make the distinction clear by calling everyone else script kiddies.
Ethan Hall
Memer.
Preferably a dark one.
Noah Perry
reverse engineer
Jackson Mitchell
Queer
Thomas Fisher
this
also if you want it to be very authentic give him weird racist beliefs who sometimes starts screeching at his Pajeet coworkers that their code is "designated shitting script", and call his coworkers "code monkeys" and "brainlets" who think he's top shit but it really just browses Veeky Forums, and takes insulin regularly because he has Type 2 Diabetes.
Camden Adams
and it goes without saying that he should be partially autistic (aspergers) and have significant anti-social tendencies
Nathan Phillips
Code savant.
For extra characterization, make it his own pretentious affectation that everyone else thinks is ridiculous.
Logan Phillips
Shit you beat me to it.
Hunter King
Code monkey
Colton Rodriguez
Check out r/cpp lots of weird racist rants pop up amongst actually serious as fuck programmers he isn't lying this autistic pol type racism is real.
Samuel Harris
Anorak
Christian Cruz
tekhnar'
Ayden Jackson
This desu
Tyler Evans
Pajeets are a problem that needs to be solved doe.
Michael James
turbo virgin
Lincoln Evans
Hacker is the only fiitting term. It's usage in modern parlance has been corrupted, but its the only thing that really fits.
Hunter Thomas
As a writer you have the great fortune of being able to use many words and not reduce your complex character down to one shitty word. So don't.