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PRESENTATION IN COMPUTER

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SOFTWARE

AQUEM JANNA HERNANDEZ

 Computer software, or justsoftware, is

a collection ofcomputer programsand relateddatathat provide the instructions for telling acomputerwhat to do and how to do it. In other words, software is a conceptual entity which is a set of computer programs, procedures, and associated documentation concerned with the operation of a data processing system. We can also say software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words software is a set 4/29/12

HISTORY OF SOFTWARE

From its beginnings in the 1940s, writing software has evolved into a profession concerned with how best to maximize the quality of software and of how to create it. Quality can refer to how maintainable software is, to its stability, speed, usability, testability, readability, size, cost, security, and number of flaws or "bugs", as well as to less measurable qualities like elegance, conciseness, and customer satisfaction, among many other attributes. How best to create high quality software is a separate and controversial problem covering software design principles, so-called "best practices" for writing code, as well as broader management 4/29/12 issues such as optimal team size, process, how best

Function of Software

The functions of software are to perform the work that you and I need to do. The type of function depends on what job it was written to do. Corel Wordperfect is a fine word processor, but it wouldn't be very helpful in compiling a batch of C++ code.

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IMPORTANCE Software is the easiest way for users to interact with the hardware of a system. With modern day computers, it would be impossible to accomplish anything without software. The best you could accomplish without software would be clocks (analog and basic digital) and things like that.

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