Summary
In this chapter, we have talked about some typical types of applications and what makes them special.
We learned what a standalone application is and that this is the first type of application you will write when learning to program. After that, we looked at different types of applications that, in one way or the other, were divided to run parts of the program on different computers, and we saw that the parts communicate with each other.
We learned that a web application runs on a server but communicates with its users through web pages. We saw that mobile applications are special in that they can take advantage of the features of modern mobile devices including smartphones and tablets, such as the GPS and the camera.
Another category of applications is those that need lots of computing power and let many computers share the workload and perform parts of the computing. These are often referred to as distributed applications. Then we looked at a category that is growing...