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