After doing the required reading for week two and watching the assigned lectures, I was very confused on a lot of the concepts.
To begin with, I am not a very technology savvy individual. So, all the specific terms and concepts were difficult for me to understand. Upon completion of the lecture, we should have been able to explain the differences between application and system software, identify a particular program as either application or system software, provide a high-level explanation of the function of an operating system, understand the difference between the operatig system itself and system utilities.
However, I was still not able to successfully achieve all these objectives; mainly understanding system software. So, to grasp a better understanding of the concept I researhed the term and came across this definition:
System software refers to the files and programs that make up your computer's operating system. System files include libraries of functions, system services, drivers for printers and other hardware, system preferences, and other configuration files. The programs that are part of the system software include assemblers, compilers, file management tools, system utilities.
As I now understand it, software is essentially a set of instructions that tells your computer what to do.
Like the lecture said, without software your computer is just an expensive collection of electronic parts
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