Introduction to computer hardware and software
Software and Hardware In a system, the things that we can see and touch are called hardware and the things which we can see but can't touch are called software. Hardware It is a part of machine, it can only understand on and off . The on and off concept is called Binary. Software were developed to make efficient use of binary to instruct the hardware to perform meaningful tasks. The hardware needs a software, that is a set of programs to instruct what has to be done. A program is a set of instructions that is arranged in a sequence to guide a computer to find a solution for the given problem. The process of writing a program is called programming . The instructions that are given to a hardware is knows as source code . A computer program, compiler is used on the source code to transform the instructions into a language that the computer can understand and this result in an executable computer program , known as software . Examples of software: Driver Software : It is a t...