It’s more difficult to realize, however, that the computer hardware can hardly be useful without the program or system that tells what the computer machine should do. This is also called the software. There are two kinds of software, systems software and applications software. The systems software is the operating system that found or bundled inside all computer machines while the application software contains the system that commands the particular task or solves a particular problem. In turn, the application s software may be custom software or commercial software. It is custom software when it is made for special tasks often by large corporations and it is a commercial when it is packaged for personal computers with a variety of tasks.
Also referred to as a program, Microsoft Windows or windows for short is an operating environment between the user and the computer operating system. Windows is in itself a self-contained operating system which provides user convenience, a new look, information center and plug and play. Moreover, instructional software can be visited on the Internet or can be bought from software shops or dealers. The teacher through his school should decide on the best computer-based instructional (CBI) materials for the school resource collection.
Software is merely important to a computer because they are the ones to put sense to computer. In using computer, lots of software are being used – some are for entertainment (Farmville), practice (Text Twist), and for instructional (SimCity, Bookworm) as well.
As a future teacher, we must choose an appropriate and updated type of educational software as a teaching material, because, somehow, the learning is quite interesting if we present this kind of software to the students.
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