{"id":395,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:26:19","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-228","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=395","title":{"rendered":"Software Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<title>Software Basics<\/title>\n<p>\nA program is a  set of computer instructions that perform a particular task.\nThat program can be written in assembler, a very low level computer language,\nor in a high level, machine independent language such as the C programming\nlanguage.\n<p>\nAn operating system is a special program that allows the user to run applications such as\nspreadsheets and word processors.\nThis chapter introduces basic programming principles and gives an  overview of\nthe aims and functions of an operating system.\n<p>\nA process could be thought of as a program in action. Each process is a separate entity\nthat is running a particular program.\nIf you look at the processes on your Linux system, you will see that\nthere are rather a lot of processes running at any given moment.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software Basics A program is a set of computer instructions that perform a particular task. That program can be written in assembler, a very low level computer language, or in a high level, machine independent language such as the C &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}