Overview of content related to 'software'
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Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions telling a computer what to do and how to do it. We can also say software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast to the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software is intangible, meaning it "cannot be touched (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Software)
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Book Review: Approximately 97 Things |
Pete Cliff learns something new in this 'Open Source' book every time he makes the tea. |
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Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age |
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! |
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Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper |
Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations. |
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Book Review: Website Optimization |
Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband. |
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Book Review: Visualizing Data |
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. |
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Book Review: Digital Literacies for Learning |
Pete Cliff reviews a work that challenges traditional notions of literacy and how suggests that new literacies need to be developed to empower both learners and teachers in the digital age. |
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Building ResourceFinder |
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project |
Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
