Objective:
Students will be able to identify and describe system software and application software, discuss the operating system and its principal functions, the characteristics of device drivers and utility programs, common features of the graphical software environment and how they relate to the keyboard and the mouse. Students will also be able to identify and describe common desktop, network, and portable (embedded) operating systems.
Students will also be able to describe the seven ways of obtaining application software and the tools to help learn it, as well as data files, program files, filename extensions, the purposes served by export/import, and data compression. Students will be able to identify and discuss several kinds of application software: word processing, spreadsheet, database, office suites, integrated packages, and specialty application software.
Topics Discussed:
- Software
- System Software
- Application Software
- Operating Systems
- Device Drivers
- Utility Programs
- GUI
- Desktop OS
- Network OS
- Embedded OS
- Files
- Import/Export
- Data Compression
- Word Processing
- Spreadsheet
- Database
- Office Suite
- Integrated Packages
- Specialty Applications
Assignment:
- Complete the Chapter 3 “Sharpening the Saw” Practice quiz, due Thursday of this week. The Practice quiz consists of 90 questions.
- Check your score afterwards, and if you got less than 80 percent, try, try again!
- Go for 100%! The more you retry, the better prepared you’ll be for the final Chapter 3 quiz on Friday!
- Don’t forget to briefly review the material from Chapters 1 and 2, as Friday’s comprehensive quiz will include questions from all three of the chapters we have studied.
Teacher Pacing Due Date: October 25th, 2018