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SPECIAL PROGRAM IN SCIENCE

CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY 7
HANDOUT #2

NAME: ___________________________________________________________ DATE: _________________________

SOFTWARE

Software, also called a program, is a series of related instructions, organized to


perform some specific task or used to operate a computer. It directs all the
peripheral devices on a computer system what to do and how to perform work.
Without the software, a user can’t operate hardware and perform any
calculations. The computer system can be divided into three components: the
hardware, the software and the users. These software comes from a Software
Developer in a form of a CD or Compact Disc). A user interacts with a program
through its a graphical user interface or GUI (pronounced as gooey), the user
is able to interact with the software using text, graphics, and visual images
such as icons. An Icon is a miniature image representing a program, an
instruction, a file or some other object. Software is divided into two parts:
system software and application software.

SYSTEM SOFTWARE

A System Software consists of programs that control or maintain the operations of the
computer and its devices. The system software serves as the interface between the
user, the application software and the computer’s hardware.

Three basic components of a system software are the operating system, device
drivers and utility software.

OPERATING SYSTEM

Operating System is a set of programs that coordinates all the


activities among computer hardware devices. A low-level, master
system of programs that manage the basic operations of the
computer. It provides a means for users to communicate with the
computer and other software. They handle the control and use of
hardware resources, disk space, memory, CPU(Central Processing
Unit), time allocation and peripheral devices. Every computer must
have an operating system to run other programs. When a user boot-up a computer, portions of the operating system are copied into memory
form the computer’s hard disk. These parts of the operating system remain in memory while the computer is on.

DEVICE DRIVERS

Device Drivers are specialized software programs that allow input and output devices to
communicate with the rest of the computer system. Device drivers comes with the system software when
you purchase a computer, the system software will guide you through installing the necessary
drivers.

UTILITY SOFTWARE

Utility software allows a user to perform


maintenance-type tasks usually related to
managing a computer, its devices, or its
programs. They are used to support,
enhance or expand existing programs in a
computer system. There are utility programs that can be bought that allows you to
perform additional computer management functions. Examples of utility software are
antivirus, backup software, compression utility, disk checkers, disk partition editors,
debuggers, memory tester, network monitors, registry cleaners and etc.
APPICATION SOFTWARE

Application software is any program or group of programs that is capable


of dealing with user inputs and helps the user to complete the task. It is
either be installed or access online. It can be a single program or a group
of small programs that referred to as an application suite consists of
programs designed to make users more productive and/or assist them
with personal tasks. Example of application software includes Word
processing software, spreadsheets software, presentation, graphics,
CAD/CAM, sending email and etc. Many other types of application
software exist that enable users to perform.

TYPE OF APPLICATION
SOFTWARE

1. Word Processing Software – It is used to manipulate and format text, create memos, letters,
faxes and documents. Word Processor provides a list of features like thesaurus, find and replace
features that enable users to scan and replace, modify fonts, word art to animate titles and many
more.

2. Spreadsheet software – It is used to perform and


manipulate calculations.
The data in a spreadsheet is stored in a cell. A cell is a grid of columns and rows. It provides
formulas and function to perform calculations like arithmetic operations, logical operations and text
operations.

3. Presentation software – It is a program that shows the information in the form of slides. To make these slides more informative, text,
graphics video and images are added. The three components of Presentation
software are text editor for inputting and formatting text, inserting graphics, text, video
and other multimedia files and slideshow to display the information. This software
helps the presenter to present their ideas with ease and visual information easy to
understand.

4. Database Software – is a
collection of data related to any
applications. The environment in every application has some database wherever data
regarding users hold on. For this purpose, we used database software after we operate
the application data is accessed from the database, and after manipulation, it gets back to
keep in the database. The DBMS(Database Management System) Software tool is used
for storing, modifying extracting and looking for information within a database. Examples
of database application software are MySQL, MS Access, Microsoft SQL Server and
Oracle.

5. Multimedia Software – It is a combination of text, graphics, audio and multimedia software used in the editing of video, audio and text.
Multimedia software used in the growth of business, educations, information, remote
system and entertainment.

Prepared by:

MRS. LUDY GRACE B. LIBATO


Subject Teacher

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