IGCSE Computer Science 0478: System and application software
Students learn to tell system software (the operating system and utility software) from application software and to give examples of each.
One content description from the full IGCSE Computer Science 0478 — 4.1 Types of Software and Interrupts journey. All 15 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (15)
1
Hardware
2
Software
3
System software
4
Application software
5
Examples of application software
6
System software versus application software
7
Operating system
8
Utility software
9
Antivirus software
10
Firewalls
11
Backup systems
12
Disk defragmentation utility
13
Disk formatting utility
14
File compression utility
15
Classifying software as system or application
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