Exam 5: Business Software

____________________ applications mimic sensory reality using software.

Many people refer to sophisticated multimedia applications that run on PCs as ____.

Hypermedia enables linking text,pictures,sounds,animations,and video.

A(n)____ scans the entire source code,looking for errors in the form (syntax)of the code.

Higher-level ____ enable the use of English-like statements to accomplish a goal,and those statements are translated by special software into the machine language.

Software developers often create ____ of productivity tools.

Describe the term software.

The developers of ____________________ do not make the source code of their software public.

The most popular OOP languages are ____,C++,Object Pascal,and Java.

Discuss visual programming languages.

The permissive model of software licensing permits anyone to use,modify,and make applications with the code,but not to use it in proprietary products for sale or licensing.

Discuss some advantages of object-oriented programming (OOP)over procedural languages.

A(n)____________________ is the software that enables the OS to control a device,either one installed inside the computer box (such as a second video card)or an external device such as a flash memory drive.

____ made programming somewhat easier because they aggregated common commands into "words," although many of those "words" are not English-like.

When you purchase an application,whether a computer game or a business program,you purchase a compiled version of the code,that is,the object code.

The ____________________ and documentation for Firefox is open: programmers from the world over can access it and improve it.

Programs that can handle many different types of data are called ____.

When executives talk about productivity tools,they really mean computer programs,commonly known as software ____.

Much of the software we use is ____,which means the code is owned by someone who has the right to sell or license it to us.

Web page development packages expedite development of Web pages.