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SOFTWARE:
- is the non-physical components of the computer that are intangible in nature.
Categories of Software:
1. System Software – refers to the programs that assists in the computer operations in general thereby facilitating of applications programs.
Types of System software:
• Operating Systems – refers to a group of related programs that supervise the execution of an application program.
• Operating Environment- refers to programs that sit on top of OS.
• Utilities – a single term for all types of programming aids.
• Programming languages – the programs used to write other programs
• Language processor – known as translators, used to convert source program into a form suitable for execution
❖ Compilers – it translates programs written in high-level languages into machine instructions understandable by the computer.
❖ Assemblers – it translate the source program written in Assembly language
❖ Interpreters – it performs each instructions immediately after translation.
2. Application Software – user programs designed to solve problems such as those use in business, engineering and scientific research
Types of Application software:
• Package programs – commonly called ‘application package’ which are useful to several users.
Types of Package programs:
❖ Word processing software – it allows inserting, deleting, storing m restoring and printing of documents. Ex. MS Word, Wordstar, Wordperfect
❖ Desktop Publishing software – combines hardware and software to enable the user to combine text and images on the same page in a professional, publishable format for printing. Ex. Pagemaker, Adobe
❖ Spreadsheet Software – allows the user to create worksheets/tables of data for financial analysis. Ex. MS Excel,...