Download Basic Application Software

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Learning Outcomes
• Identify general-purpose applications
• Describe word processors, spreadsheets, presentation programs, and database
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management systems.
Identify specialized applications.
Describe graphics programs, web authoring programs, and other specialized
professional applications.
Describe mobile apps and app stores.
Identify software suites.
Describe office suites, cloud suites, specialized suites, and utility suites.
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Introduction
• Not long ago, trained specialists were required to
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perform many of the operations you can now do
with a personal computer.
• Competent end users need to understand the
capabilities of basic application software including:
• Word processors
• Spreadsheets
• Presentation programs
• Database management systems
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Application Software
• Application software is end user software that is
used to accomplish a variety of tasks
• Three categories
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1. General Purpose Applications
2. Specialized Applications
3. Mobile Apps
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User Interface
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• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Icons
• Pointer
• Windows
• Menus
• Toolbars
• Buttons
• Dialog Boxes
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Common Features in Microsoft
• Ribbon GUI
• Ribbons
• Tabs
• Groups
• Contextual tabs
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• Galleries
• Spell checkers
• Alignment
• Font and Font Sizes
• Tables
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General Purpose Applications
• General purpose applications include:
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• Word processors
• Spreadsheets
• Presentation graphics
• Database management systems
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Word Processors
• Used to create text-based documents
• Memos, letters, and faxes
• Newsletters, manuals, and brochures
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• Word processing programs
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Microsoft Word
Corel WordPerfect
Apple Pages
OpenOffice Writer
Google Docs
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Creating a Flyer
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Creating a Report
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Spreadsheets
• Programs that organize, analyze, and graph numeric data
• Spreadsheet programs
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• Microsoft Excel
• Apple Numbers
• OpenOffice Calc
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Creating a Sales Forecast
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Analyzing Your Data
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Presentation Graphics
• Programs that combine a variety of visual objects to
create visually interesting presentations
• Presentation programs
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• Microsoft PowerPoint
• OpenOffice Impress
• Apple Keynote
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Creating a Presentation
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Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• A collection of related data
• Electronic equivalent of a file cabinet
• Two most widely used systems
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• Microsoft Access
• OpenOffice Base
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Creating a Database
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Specialized Applications
• Programs that more narrowly focused on
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specific disciplines and occupations
• Includes:
• Graphics Programs
• Web Authoring Programs
• Artificial Intelligence
– Virtual Reality
– Knowledge-based Systems
– Robotics
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Graphics
• Widely used in graphic arts
• Use:
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• Desktop Publishing Programs
• Image Editing Programs
• Illustration Programs
• Image Galleries
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Desktop Publishing Programs
• Also known as Page Layout Programs
• Mix text and graphics to create brochures,
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newsletters, newspapers and textbooks
• Popular programs:
• Adobe InDesign
• Microsoft Publisher
• QuarkXPress
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Image Editors
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• Also know as Photo Editors
• Editing or modifying digital
photographs
• Photographs consist of thousands of
pixels that form images knows as
bitmaps
• Popular image editors
• Adobe Photoshop
• Corel Paint shop Pro
• GIMP (GNU Manipulation Program)
• Windows Live Photo Gallery
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Illustration Programs
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• Drawing programs
• Create and edit vector images
• Geometric shapes or objects
• Created by connecting lines and curves
• Defined by mathematical equations
• Popular Illustration Programs
• Adobe Illustrator
• CorelDraw
• Inkscape
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Image Galleries
• Libraries of electronic images
• Used for a variety of applications
• Provides visual interest
• Two types
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• Stock photographs
• Clip art
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Web Authoring Programs
• Web authoring is the creation of a site
• Design
• Document file displaying website’s content
• Blog
• Online diary/commentaries
• Graphical site map
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• Overall site design
• Multimedia Elements
• Animations
• Flash
• WYSIWYG
• Page/HTML Editors
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Artificial Intelligence
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• Attempts to simulate human senses,
thought processes, and actions
• Designed to help people and
organizations become more productive
• Three areas of AI
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– Virtual reality
– Knowledge-based (expert) systems
– Robotics
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Virtual Reality
• Artificial or simulated reality
– Generated in 3-D by a computer
– Commonly known as VR, artificial reality, or virtual environments
• Virtual reality modeling language (VRML)
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– Used to create
real-time animated 3-D scenes
– Cosmos Worlds
from Cosmos Software
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Knowledge-Based (Expert) Systems
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• Artificial intelligence that uses a database for assistance
• Database is known as a knowledge base
• Many use "fuzzy logic"
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Robotics
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• The field of study concerned with using robots
• Robots are computer-controlled machines
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– Mimic the motor activities of living things
– Three types of robots
• Perception system robots
• Industrial robots
• Mobile robots
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Mobile Apps
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• Mobile applications
• Add-on programs for smartphones or tablets
• Apps
• 500,000 just for iPhone
• Music, videos, social networking, QR codes
• App Stores
• Provides access to mobile apps
• Apple’s App Store
• Google Play
• Windows Phone Marketplace
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Software Suites
• Collection of separate application programs
• Bundled together/Sold as group
• Office suites or office software suite / productivity suites
• Microsoft Office
• Apple iWork, OpenOffice
• Cloud suites or online office
suites
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• Google Docs (Making IT Work for You), Zoho, Microsoft Web Apps
• Specialized suites
• Corel Draw Graphics Suite X6
• Moneyfree Software TOTAL Planning Suite
• Utility suites
• Norton Systems Works
• Norton Internet Security suite
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Careers In IT
• Software Engineers
• Analyze users’ needs and create application software
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• Attributes
• Good communication skills
• Programming experience
• Detail oriented
• Web application experience
• Analytical skills
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