So you struggle identifying what is hardware in your computer and what is software. Nothing to worry about. Let’s find out together!
Hardware is the physical parts of a computer that you can touch and see. They make the computer work, like the body of a car or the parts inside a clock.
Imagine your computer is like a house. The hardware is everything you can touch, like the walls, the roof, and the furniture inside. It includes things like the screen you look at, the keyboard you type on, and the box (the CPU) that does all the thinking and calculations.
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Software, on the other hand, is like the instructions that tell the hardware what to do. It’s the programs and apps that you can’t touch but make the computer do different tasks, like playing music, writing letters, or browsing the internet.
In our house example, software is like the recipes you use to cook meals or the instructions for playing a game. You can’t touch them, but they tell you what to do and how to do it.
So, hardware is the physical parts of the computer, and software is the programs and instructions that make the hardware work and do different things.