Software 101: A Complete Guide to Different Types of Software

Software is a computer program that provides instructions and data to execute user’s commands.

Multimedia software: Tools used for a mixture of audio, video, image and text content.

Internet Browsers: Used to access and view websites.

These types of computer software allow an environment or platform for other software and applications to work in.

They are facilitator software used to translate programming languages (i.e., Java, C++, Python, PHP, BASIC, etc) into machine language code.

Different programming language editors, debuggers, compilers and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are an example of programming software.