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(g) Explain the software development tools: programming languages,

mark-up and scripting languages and authoring tools;

1) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

- A programming language is a formal language comprising a set of


strings that produce various kinds of machine code output.
Programming languages are one kind of computer language, and are
used in computer programming to implement algorithms. Most
programming languages consist of instructions for computers.

Examples of Programming Language:

- Python

- Java

- JavaScript

- PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)

- SQL (Structured Query Language)


2) MARK UP LANGUAGE

- Mark up language is a computer language that consists of easily


understood keywords, names, or tags that help format the overall view
of a page and the data it contains. Some examples of a markup
language are BBC, HTML, SGML, and XML.

Example of Mark-up Language

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the most common language


used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML uses
hundreds of different tags to define a layout for web pages. Most tags
require an opening <tag> and a closing </tag>.

Example:  <b>On a webpage, this sentence would be in bold print.</b>

Below is an example of a very simple page:

This is the code used to make the page:

<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title Here</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF">

<CENTER><IMG SRC="clouds.jpg" ALIGN="BOTTOM"> </CENTER>

<HR>

<a href="http://somegreatsite.com">Link Name</a>

is a link to another nifty site

<H1>This is a Header</H1>

<H2>This is a Medium Header</H2>

Send me mail at <a href="mailto:support@yourcompany.com">

support@yourcompany.com</a>.

<P> This is a new paragraph!

<P> <B>This is a new paragraph!</B>

<BR> <B><I>This is a new sentence without a paragraph break, in bold


italics.</I></B>

<HR>

</BODY>

</HTML>

3) SCRIPTING LANGUAGE
- A scripting language is a programming language that executes tasks
within a special run-time environment by an interpreter instead of a
compiler. They are usually short, fast, and interpreted from source code
or bytecode.

Example of Scripting Language

4) AUTHORING TOOL

- An authoring tool assists you in creating digital content. The tool could
be something as simple as Google documents, or as complex as a video
production suite. In the context of learning and development, an
authoring tool commonly refers to software that helps to create e-
Learning and other digital content.

Example of Authoring Tool

- Macromedia Director

- Macromedia Authorware

- Comil Zamrud

- Adobe Flash.

(h) Explain the Internet and World Wide

Web;
1) INTERNET

- The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer


networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate
between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that
consists of private, public, academic, business, and government
networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic,
wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a
vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-
linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web
(WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.

2) WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)

- The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an


information system where documents and other web resources are
identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URL), which may be
interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet. The
resources of the Web are transferred via the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP), may be accessed by users by a software application
called a web browser, and are published by a software application
called a web server. The World Wide Web is not synonymous with the
Internet, which pre-dated the Web in some form by over two decades
and upon the technologies of which the Web is built.

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