What is Software?

Translating one language to another.

Coding in a scripting language.

Coding in a programming language.

Special languages that software developers use to write instructions for computers to execute.

Types of Software

Any software created to fulfill a specific need, like a text editor, web browser, or graphic editor.

Software used to keep our core system running, like OS tools and utilities.

Software that is permanently stored on a computer component.

The concept of taking a complex system and simplifying it for use.

Allowed computer scientists to use human-readable instructions, assembled into code, that the machine could understand.

Uses human-readable instructions, then sends them through a compiler.

The script is run by an interpreter, which interprets the code into CPU instructions just in time to run them.