Types of Files
Introduction
This lesson and the next three lessons will give you an overview of your file system and how to manage it. It is important to understand files and folders for a few reasons.
- You will need to create file structures for all of your coding projects.
- You will also be regularly locating, moving, coping, and renaming files and folders.
- When you install new software you will need to locate the files you've downloaded, unzip them, and recognize what kind of file types they are.
In this lesson we will learn how to identify different file types by their extensions.
Review
Question 1:
What type of file does the ".doc" or ".docx" extension indicate?
Question 2:
What type of file does the ".txt" extension indicate?
Question 3:
What are three file extensions used for image files?
Question 4:
What is the most common extension for an executable file?