After you read this chapter you should be able to:
- Describe three fundamental categories of software
and their relationships.
- Explain the relationship of algorithms to software.
- Discuss the factors that make a computer
application a useful tool.
- Describe the role of the operating system
in a modern computer system.
- Describe how file systems are organized.
- Outline the evolution of user interfaces from early
machine-language programming to futuristic
virtual reality interfaces.
- Explain why the unauthorized copying of software
is against the law.
