Description Purpose

Category Specific Examples (if Applicable)

System Run the computer, manage Windows XP

A group of programs that
Control the operations of a resources and support the
Software infrastructure. MAC osX
Computers equipment

1.Microsoft Office
2.Adobe photoshop
Application Software that can perform a
Used to track a variety of tasks 3.Audacity
Software Specific set of useful tasks
4.Inkscape
for the user
5.Visual studio
6.Google chrome
1.LibreOffice
Free software which the Created to allow programmers
Open Source 2.GNU Image Manipulation Program
source code is available to to collaborate and improve
Software 3.ownCloud
the general public for use in the code and share changes with
4.Nextcloud
certain ways the community
5.Unix
Language that is directly
Machine understood by the computer Low level language understood
NA
Language and does not need to be by computers
translated

A set of symbols and letters Writing system software, first

that requires a translator,
Assembly Level
Used for precise timing or
Language
optimization of computer
resources
step to improve programming
structure and make computer NA
language more readable for
humans

Programming language that 1.FORTRAN

Can run on any computers with
High Level uses English and 2.COBOL
appropriate translator, better
Language mathematical symbols in its 3.JAVA
portability
instructions 4.Pascal

A computer program that

translates a program written
Compiled Compiled languages are C++
in a high level language to
converted to binary code so they Swift (APPLE)
Language the machine language of a
can be run by the computer Assembler
computer (converted to
binary code).
 Computer program that
simulates a computer that Interpreted language is ran by a PYTHON
Interpreted
understands a high level program that interacts with the PHP
Language
language (translated or computer, makes process slower. Ruby
directly executed).