Unit 5 — Software Applications

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In this unit students will learn about software development process and how apps (applications) are developed.
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Agile Alpha Beta Development cycle Freemium Help file Minimum viable product Patch Perform a meaningful task Productive Release candidate Rest at ease Software development life cycle Trial version Upgrade Waterfall You should be wary
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Without software applications, it would be very hard to actually perform any meaningful task on a computer unless one was a very talented, fast, and patient programmer. Applications are meant to make users more productive and get work done faster. Their goal should be flexibility, efficiency, and user-friendliness. Today there are thousands of applications for almost every purpose, from writing…
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MVP releases allow a company to get to market quickly by maintaining focus on the core feature set without wasting time on extra features that add little value to the average user.
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Apple refers internally to a release candidate as "the golden master".
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Office suites such as MS Office or Google Docs are designed to make users more productive at their jobs.
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  • What applications do you use every day? Which ones do you like and which ones do you not like? Why?
  • If you have the financial resources to develop any application you wanted to, what would you develop? Explain how your application would improve the lives of its users.
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