"Programmers work with computer languages and develop software." Realizing that would all go over Astarion's head, he thought for a second to put it into terms that the elf would understand.

"I guess you could say they're like artificers. Or maybe a combination of scribe and artificer. Basically, they make it so that the datapads can do what they can. Not just datapads either, but the holonet, computers," He pointed to the computer on Astarion's desk. "And mechanical beings we call droids. Everything on your datapad was made by a programmer."

Reaching over, he pointed to an icon of a magnifying glass. "If you want to look something up, you tap that and then type in what you want to find."