Vocabulary Computer Software

                                                              Vocabulary Computer Software


activities:  Students will learn the difference between open source and proprietary software, how software is made, and what steps they can make to improve it. Activitat

programmer: The software company needed to hire three new programmers to help debug their flagship application. Programa.

Execute: to start a program on a computer. Executar.
Feature: The man upgraded his copy of Word because of a new feature that allowed him to spell-check documents in Spanish.

bug: an error in a computer program. fall

crash: a computer failure due to faulty hardware or a serious software bug. Fallada

Terminate: To cause a process or task to stop executing.

End user: a person who uses a product or service on a computer.

Error: an incorrect action attributable to poor judgment, ignorance, or inattention. 

Abort: to end a program or a process before its completion. avortar.

Compatiblo: capable of being used without modification. Compatible.

Closed source: software in which the license stipulates that the user cannot see, edit, or manipulate the source code of a software program. 

Propietari: privately developed and owned technology.

Open source: a program in which the code is distributed allowing programmers to alter and change the original software as much as they like.