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- assembly language
- second generation languages--developed to reduce difficulties in writing machine language programs, symbols
- cmmon use of spreadsheet applications
- analysis, planning, modeling
- what are the four most popular operating systems
- windoes, unix, linux, mac osx
- Open source
- software in which anyone can contribute to it
- What does COTS stand for
- Commerical off the shelf
- Advanrtages of using a software suite
- Cost less than buying individual packages, all have similar GUI, work well together
- Most important software component of a modern computer
- application software (word, etc)
- CASE tool
- combination of many programming tools into a single application with a common interface
- Difference between html and xml
- html is how a page looks acts and is displayed, while xml describes what the words in a document are
- natural language
- english or other human language, 5th generation
- Disadvantages of COTS
- prurchasers have no control over specifications, schedule, or evolution, product vendor retains teh intellectual property rights of the software
- what are some advantages of COTS
- minimal chagnes beyond scheudled upgrades
- object-oriented programming
- combines data elements and the procedures that will be performed upon them into objects
- why might a company use an application service provider
- pay as you go, to test the software
- compiler
- translates high level language statements
- HTML
- a page description language that creates hypertext documents for the web
- XML
- describes web page content by applying identifying tags or contextual labels to the data
- interpreter
- a compiler that translates and executes each statement in a program, one at a time
- groupware
- software that helps workgroups collaborate on group assignments
- application service provider
- companies that own, operate, and maintain application software and computer system resources
- machine language
- first generation languages--strings of binary codes unique to each computer