Friends, what are the names come to your mind when we ask
to tell the parts of computers? Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Computer Case
/ CPU and Power Cord right? But technically speaking computer has only
Two parts. These two types of parts are essential to work together to
make it run. Those are,
- Hardware (all the above mentioned parts come under this category)
- Software (list of instructions)
Now lets have a detailed look,
Hardware : It Refers to the physical components of a computer
system. Examples of hardware are keyboard, monitor, hard disk, floppy
disk, mouse, microprocessor etc.
Software : The software is the set of instructions (called
programs) written for a computer to perform a particular task.
Generally, software is written in any one of the computer languages (c,
c++, Java etc). The software can be classified as two types. Those are,
- System Software and
- Application Software.
System Software : It refers to a collection of