1 / 5 Application Software Pertemuan III Magister Teknik Elektro September 2008

2 / 5 Application software Software that has been developed to solve a particular problem, to perform useful work on specific tasks, or to provide entertainment –Commercial software Proprietary software, packaged software Copyrighted. If you don’t pay for it, you can be prosecuted –Public-domain software Not copyrighted. You can copy it for free Often available through sites on the Internet –Shareware Copyrighted software that is distributed free of charge but requires users to make a monetary contribution to continue using it Primarily distributes through the Internet

3 / 5 –Freeware Copyrighted software that is distributed free of charge, most often over the Internet E.g. Linux Custom software It is created by software engineers/programmers Companies need software written specifically for them, to meet unique needs Software Tutorial Documentations

4 / 5 Type of applications software Entertainment software Games, etc. Personal software Cookbooks, Medical, Home decoration Gardening, Home repair, Tax preparation, etc Education/reference software Encyclopedias, Phone books Almanacs, Library searches, etc. Productivity software Word processing, Spreadsheets, Database managers Personal information management Web browser, , etc. Specialty software Presentation graphics, financial, desktop publishing Drawing & painting (image editing), project management Computer aided design, web page design Video/audio editing, etc.

5 / 5 The first thing you look at when you call up any application software on the screen is the user interface The user-controllable display screen that allows you to communicate, or interact, with the computer GUI: graphical user interface Word processing program MS Word, Corel wordperfect, staroffice Spreadsheets MS Excel, corel quattro pro, lotus Database DBMS (database management system) A collection of interrelated files in computer systems Database software: a program that sets up and controls the structure of a database and access to the data MS Access, Corel Paradox, Lotus, Oracle