Software

Module Introduction

What is Software?

• Coding Translaing one language to another.

• scripting Coding in a scripting language

• Scripts mainly used to perform a single or limited range task

• Pogramming Coding in a Pogramming language

• Programming languages Special language that software developers use to write instructions for computers to execute.

• So what is software made of and who build it?

Types of Software

• Copyright Used when creating original work

• Application Software Any software created to fulfill a specific need, like a text editor, web browser, or graphic editor.

• System Software Software used to keep our core system running, like operating system tools and utilities

• Firmware Software that’s permamently stored on a computer component.

Revisiting Abstraction

Reciepe for Computing

• Assembly Language Allowed computer scientists to use human readable instructions, assembled into code, that the machines could understand

• Compiled language Use human readble instructions, then sends them through a compiler.

• The scripts is run by an interpreter, which interprets the code into CPU instructions just in time to run them.

Managing Software

• Software bug An error in software that causes unexpexted results.

Installing, Updating, and Removing Software on Windows

• Git A version control system that helps keep track of changes made to files and directories.

• .exe A file extension found in windows for an executable file

Installing, Updating, and Removing Software on Linux

Software Automation

• Automation Makes process work correctly