Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Softwares
- Word Processing
- All word processing applications
allow you to: enter and edit text,
save, print, cut/copy/paste, check
your spelling and format text.
- Formatting includes: change font type and size, change the alignment of text,
bold text, underline text, italicise text, create bulleted or numbered lists.
- This makes reading word processing documents easier and more appealing to the eyes.
- Mail Merging
- A feature that allows users to
personalise letters with names
and addresses from a database
- it’s a very fast way to
produce hundreds of
personalised letters
- The database that provides the
information for the mail merge letter must
be kept up to date if it is going to be used
- Programming Languages
- Specially written code used
for writing applications
- High level languages have been developed
to be a little like a human language
- Like C++ and Java
- Low level language
such as Machine Code,
or Assembly Language
- Low level languages
run very fast.
- Presentation Software
- Contain any mixture of text,
images, video, animations, links and
sound for presentational purposes.
- Operating Systems
- Real-time processing ; reacts
within a guaranteed time to an input.
- Multi-programming ; several programs
appear to be running at once.
- Batch processing ; programs or
data are collected together in a
batch and processed in one go.
- Interactive processing ; the
opposite of batch processing.
- Multi-tasking ; multiple tasks run concurrently,
taking turns using the resources of the computer.
- Multi-access or multi-user
- User Interfaces
- The method by which the user and the
computer exchange information and instructions
- Like...
- Command-line
- Allows users to interact with the
computer by typing in commands.
- Menu Driven
- The user is offered a simple menu from which to choose
an option. One menu often leads to a further menu.
- Graphical
User
Interfaces
- Pointing a mouse at an
icon representing an option
- Graphic Software
- The range of pictures, drawings and images
which can be produced by a computer.
- E.g. Programme.. painting,
drawing, photo editing and CAD
- JPG – small file size, used by cameras and for images on the internet.
- GIF – small file size, used on the internet for images that have large blocks of colour.
- PNG – small to medium file size, designed to replace GIF.
- BMP – large file size
- TIFF – very large file size, primarily used in the print industry
- Can be used
to edit pictures.
- Desktop Publishing
- DTP applications allow
users to create page layouts
using text and pictures