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What is Application Software?
What is Application Software?
Application software are programs or apps that allow you do something on the computer. They are usually part of the reason why you bought the device in the first place.
Application software include:
Web Browsers
Games
Music Players
Office Software (Word processing, spreadsheets, slideshow makers)
Image video / editing
Media Players
Media Players
Media players are used to play a wide variety of media formats, such as:
Video files (Mp4, MOV, FLV)
Audio files (MP3, WAV ,AAC,OGG)
Image files (JPG,PNG,BMP)
Media Editors
Media Editors
These are used to create and edit a variety of media files.
Image Editors (Photoshop, GIMP)
Video Editors (MovieMaker)
Sound Editors (Audacity)
Web Browsers
Web Browsers
Web browsers are used to find and navigate between HTML pages which are located on the visible part of the internet, known as the World Wide Web. Each page is located at a web address URL and you can navigate between pages by clicking on the links to other pages. Different sites are linked together over the internet in a web of links and pages, hence the term World Wide Web.
The world wide web was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee.
A few logos from the most common web browsers
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Have a look at your smartphone, if you have one with you.
Write down 5 examples from your phone of:
i) System Software
ii) Application Software
What is the name of your operating system?.
Can you access your device’s recovery screen? (usually, you have to do a combination of key-presses!) This recovery screen is usually firmware-based.
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Let create a basic website using HTML and view it in a web browser - don't worry too much about the HTML just yet we will look at this later on in the course.
HTML is the standard markup language for Web pages. With HTML you can create your own Website. HTML is easy to learn - You will enjoy it!
What is HTML?
What is HTML?
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language
HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
HTML describes the structure of a Web page
HTML consists of a series of elements
HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.
HTML uses something called tags this and opening tag <Tag> and this is when you want to close the code </Closing Tag> - you simply replace the word Tag with a command, for example <b> would start bold text and </b>end the bold text.
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