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1.1 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
Computer Hardware:
Hardware refers to the physical components of a computer. Computer
Hardware is any part of the computer that we can touch these parts. These are
the primary electronic devices used to build up the computer. Examples of
hardware in a computer are the Processor, Memory Devices, Monitor, Printer,
Keyboard, Mouse, and the Central Processing Unit..

Hardware is of two types.

1. External hardware 2. Internal hardware

Computer Software:
Software is a collection of instructions, procedures, documentation that
performs different tasks on a computer system. we can say also Computer
Software is a programming code executed on a computer processor. The code
can be machine-level code or the code written for an operating system. Examples
of software are Ms Word, Excel, Power Point, Google Chrome, Photoshop,
MySQL etc.

Types of Software:

1. Application Software 2. System Software.

APPLICATION SOFTWARE
1. Word processor
2. Spread sheet
3. Database
4. Control and measuring software
5. Apps
6. Photo editing software
7. Video editing software
8. Graphics manipulating software.
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
1. Compiler
2. Linkers
3. Device driver
4. Operating system
5. utilities
INTERNAL COMPUTER HARDWARE
1. Motherboard
2. Random access memory
3. Read only memory
4. Video card
5. Sound card
6. Internal harddisc drive / solid state drive (HDD/ SSD)
Difference Between Hardware and Software:

HARDWARE SOFTWARE
Hardware is a physical Software is a set of
parts computer that instruction that tells a
cause processing of computer exactly what to
data. do.
It is developed and
It is manufactured.
engineered.
Hardware can not software can not be
perform any task without executed without
software. hardware.
As Hardware are We can see and also
physical electronic use the software but
devices, we can see and can’t actually touch
touch hardware. them.
It has four main It is mainly divided into
categories: input device, System software,
output devices, storage, Programming software
and internal and Application
components. software.
Hardware is not
Software is affected by
affected by computer
computer viruses.
viruses.
It can not be transferred
from one place to But, it can be
another electrically transferred.
through network.
If hardware is damaged, If software is damaged,
it is replaced with new its backup copy can be
one. reinstalled.
Ex: Keyboard, Mouse,
Ex: Ms Word, Excel,
Monitor, Printer, CPU,
Power Point,
Hard disk, RAM, ROM
Photoshop, MySQL etc.
etc.
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