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Module 3 Chart
System Software
Application
Software
Open Source
Software
Machine Language
Assembly Level
Language
High Level
Language
Compiled
Language
Interpreted
Language
Description
Purpose
Specific Examples
Software designed to
operate and control the
computer hardware
-Microsoft Windows
-Mac OSX
Typically created as a
collaborative effort in which
programmers improve upon
the code and share the
changes within the
community
Binary numbers
representing the actions a
CPU can perform
-Microsoft Word
-Microsoft PowerPoint
-Microsoft Excel
-Adobe Creative Suite
-Paint
-Notepad
-LibreOffice
-SQL-Ledger
-ClamAV
-MySQL
-Knowledge Tree
Commands usually
correspond directly to
machine language
instructions
Language whose
implementations are
typically compilers, and not
interpreters
N/A
N/A
-Python
-Visual Basic
-Delphi
-Pearl
-Cobra
-Eiffel
-Modula-3
-Java
-PHP
-Ruby