ADMS 2511 Chapter Notes - Chapter tg 2: Free Software License, Office Assistant, Proprietary Software
27 Jan 2017
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Introduction: computer hardware only as effective as instructions provided by software, software. Sequence of instructions for the computer: programming process of writing or coding program. Written description of the functions of the program. Helps user operate computer system and helps other programmers understand what the program does and how it accomplishes its purpose: documentation is vital. Increased complexity of software also increased potential for errors. Bugs: software helps testing and debugging software. Software enables user to instruct hardware to perform specific functions that provide business value. Two major types of software: systems software. Set of instructions that serves primarily as intermediary between computer hardware and application programs. Load itself: system programming creation and maintenance of systems software, application software. Computer instructions that provide more specific functionality to a suer. Applies a computer to a certain need. Application programming creation, modification, improvement of application software. Often, computer program code is inefficient and poorly designed with errors.
