Title: Class Outline 10
Course: KVCC CPT126 > Section: Class Outlines

Exam 1 Review

a.     GUI

i.           Xerox Alto

b.     Software Applications

c.      BASIC

d.     Office Applications

i.           VISICALC

ii.           Lotus 123

iii.           MS Office

e.     The Internet

f.       Early computers and counting machines

g.     1642 Pascalene – the first mechanical calculator

h.     1842 Jacquard Loom – a loom that used punch cards to produce complex weaves and designs

i.       1834 Babbage Engines – Analytical engine became the ground work for the modern computer

i.           Contained the following concepts

1.     The store – like RAM

2.     The mill – like a CPU

3.     Input

4.     Output

ii.           Ada Lovelace – wrote about Babbage’s works.

j.       1890 Hollerith Tabulating Machine – an application of the jacquard loom into a counting machine. This machine became popular and resulted in the development of IBM.

k.      1936 Z1 – Developed a control unit and separate memory

l.       1939 ABC – First computer to use binary and volatile memory.

m.   1944 Harvard Mark 1 – developed for the Navy for gunnery calculations

n.     1936 Turing Machine – not a real device but a concept that lead to the development of RAM.

o.     1944 ENIAC – again developed to be used in weapon systems is widely considered to be the first digital computer.

p.     1951 UNIVAC – First widely used digital computer and used magnetic tapes instead of punch cards. This is usually considered the first generation of computers.

q.     A year later the transistor was created and this changed everything and led to the second generation of computers.

r.      1958 – Jack Kilby created the integrated circuit which is a small chip full of thousands of transistors and this allowed for the smaller devices and kick started the third generation of computers.

s.      1971 – Intel created the microprocessor which consists of millions of transistors. These CPUs started the 4^th generation of computers.

Chapter 4

t.       Software – Set of instructions that tells the computer what to do.

u.     Program – an instruction set allows for users to interact with and use the computer

v.      2 Main types of Software

a.     Application

b.     System

w.   2 Types of Installable Software

a.     Proprietary/Commercial

b.     Open Source

x.      Trends Mobile Payments

y.      Types of Applications

a.     Local

b.     Mobile

c.      Web Based - SaaS

z.      Productivity Software

aa.  Software Suites

bb. Word Processing

cc.  Spreadsheets

dd. Presentation Software

ee. Database Software

ff.    Note taking software

gg.  Personal information Manager software

hh. Personal Financial Software

ii.      Small Business Software

a.     Accounting

b.     Desktop Publishing

c.      Creating Websites

jj.     Large and Specialized Business

a.     Project Management

b.     Customer Relationship Management

c.      Enterprise Resource Planning

d.     E-Commerce

e.     Marketing and Sales

f.       Vertical Market Software

g.     CAD

kk.  Multimedia and Entertainment Software

a.     Image Editing

b.     Video Editing

c.      Cloud Computing

d.     Digital Audio

e.     Gaming Software

f.       Educational and Reference software

g.     Drawing/ART Software

ll.      Managing your Software

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