Monday 24 August 2015

Simple Learning: Hardware&Software



Hardware - the parts of the computer system that you can see and touch.

There are 2 types of Hardware:

1. External hardware = common hardware items, e.g. keyboard, microphone, monitor etc.

2. Internal hardware = hardware that are inside the computer, e.g. CPU, sound card, mother board etc.








Software - the collection of instructions that can be run on the computer, including applications and operating system (software isn't a physical part of computer that can be touch).

1. System software = it is the system that manage the computer hardware & software resources, like IOS, Windows, Linux etc....


2. Application software = all of the apps that are on your computer are the application software, e.g. web browser, Microsoft offices and many of other apps like Twitter!