Unit 4 Reading Activity Plus Questions

Read the following text and then complete the activities that follow.
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The Software Development Cycle

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 letters to playing games. Producing software is no longer the lonely profession it once was, with a few random geeks hacking away in the middle of the night. Software is a big business and the development cycle goes through certain stages and versions before it is released.

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Quiz: Reading Questions

1. An alpha version and a release candidate are the same thing.
2. A help file is often included in freeware.
3. Shareware is very often a feature-limited version of a final release.
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