HOW COMPUTERS WORK:

HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE
 HARDWARE
When you look inside a
computing device you see a
bunch of circuits, chips, wires,
speakers, plugs, and all sorts of
other stuff.

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 SOFTWARE
▪ What you don’t see is called
software.
▪ Software is all of the
computer programs, or
code, running on this
machine.
▪ Software can be anything
from apps and games to
webpages and the data
science software.

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 But how do the hardware and the software interact with one
another?

Central Processing Unit Binary Code Operating System

(CPU)
- It is the master chip that controls
all the other parts of the computer.
- It is the most basic form of - It is the master program that
software and it controls all the manages how software gets to use
hardware of the computer. the hardware of the computer.

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ILLUSTRATION
For example, an "add"
command tells the
CPU to use its outer
Software tells the CPU circuit to calculate a
what to do. new number.
The binary commands
are stored in memory
and the CPU fetches
and executes them in
sequence one after the
other

1 3 5

2 4

The CPU receives Then the "store"

simple commands that command tells the
tell it which circuit to CPU to use a different
use to do a specific circuit to save that
job result into memory.