Fundamentals of Hardware and Software

The hardware and the software make up a complete operating computer system. Hardware is the mechanical device in a computer system that is interconnected for operation. The user may not be able to see all the hardware devices because they are internal to the computer’s casing.

An example of this would be storage drives. Most of the hardware devices are a part of the motherboard that is responsible for controlling the computer.

Software, on the other hand, works on the idea of instructing programs in computer language for execution. They tell the device what to perform and how to do it using a set of instructions.

The software developers design the programs in such a way that there are instructions for all kinds of tasks. This is by using a high-level programming language which is then translated to binary form for the computer to read.

But software and hardware cannot function without each other. Hardware needs instruction to perform while software needs a processor to instruct. Thus they are dependent on each other.