in the early 1980s, companies started to work on various graphical user interfaces (or GUI for short). Most dictionaries define a GUI as ‘a way of arranging information on a computer screen that is easy to understand and use because it uses icons, menus and a mouse rather than only text.’ Introducing such software allowed a human-computer interaction on a visual plane, and took computing to an entirely new
Ethics for the Technology Age John Rankin Colorado Technical University Online PHIL340-1301B-01 03/26/2013 You are working on a software application, written in C#. The program is heavily laced with graphical icons and the screen resolution is set to 1440 x 900. Late in the development process, your company signed a contract with the federal government. This means all applications need to comply with the ADA and Section 508. What kind of impact does that have on the software
system as an event driven application could be a start button of a windows operating system. When a user clicks on the start button it loads up a user interface with a list of function you can do on your computer such as accessing your personal files such as pictures, videos and documents. you will have to click or press on the button to make this happen as this an event driven this only works with the user interaction. Another good example to show an operating system as an even driven application
allows the user to work and interact on a computer without having to know about how the hardware works. One of the most essential tasks of the operating system is to control the computers resources. Operating systems can allocate resources as necessary to ensure that applications each receive the appropriate amount. In addition to resource allocation, operating systems provide an application interface. This allows applications to use the hardware in the same way. An application interface also allows
computer programs. Some examples of operating systems are Windows (vista, 7), Mac OS, Haiku, Linux, BSD. Command line operating systems Some examples of command line operating systems are Linux and DOS. DOS, also known as disc operating system is a user interface where you can command the computer difficult but basic tasks to be done quickly. LINUX is a public/ open-source operating system based by UNIX.
the considerable pace it is essential to plan the powerful graphical client interface or GUI, is a kind of interface that permits clients to cooperate with electronic gadgets through graphical symbols and visual markers, for example, optional documentation, instead of content based interfaces, wrote order names or content route. GUIs were acquainted in response with the apparent steep expectation to absorb information of order line interfaces (CLIs), which oblige summons to be written on the console
n January of 1984, Apple Inc. released the first Macintosh personal computer to the public that significantly changed the personal computer world. Apple Inc. (Apple), the biggest information technology American firm in the world, was founded in California on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The firm started in the garage of Steve job’s home where the trio were inclined to build their own personal computer as the available ones were out of budget. Steve jobs formularized
greater responsibilities and powers. It is like a traffic cop it makes sure that different programs and users running at the same time do not interfere with each other. The operating system is also responsible for security, ensuring that unauthorized users do not access the system.
DOS is the basic system that people have to using Command line prompt to communicate with computer via simple interface which is not “friendly” user interface. The DOS can’t run multitask on computer which can only load one program until it finished. But some of the features still quite useful that people still use it. Such as: 5. CHKDSK 6. GBUPDATE 7. IPCONFIG 8. PING 9. FDISK
Violet Batchelor I believe that one of the most interesting and widely-used and seen human-computer interface devices is the desktop. Being only 20 years old, I have never personally owned a computer that did not have some kind of desktop. I had never thought to delve into why it was called the desktop until we discussed this in class. A computer's desktop is the place where the user can organize shortcuts to their different activites. Some examples are a link to an internet page, a shortcut to