Hardware and Software

Unit 6

Hardware and Software

Learning Objectives

* To identify Software and Hardware of a computer

* To distinguish the features of Hardware and software

* To recognize different types of software

* To identify some Open source software and utilize them effectively

Introduction

Computer is a device comprising both hardware and software. The functions of hardware and software combines together to make the Computer functional. A hardware device helps to enter input information. The software processes the input data and gives the output in the monitor, a hardware device. Thus computer is like a human body, where human body is the hardware and soul is the software.