Computer · lesson 13 of 30 · free

Hardware and software — Computer worksheet

Hardware is every part of a computer we can see and touch: the keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer, speakers, hard disk and pen drive. Software is a set of instructions (programs) that tells the hardware what to do: a word processor, a paint program, a web browser, an operating system or a game. Programmers write software.

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Can you touch it? — “hardware can be touched; software is instructions”

  1. Hardware = parts we can touch: keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer, hard disk, pen drive.
  2. Software = programs: a word processor, a paint program, a web browser, an operating system, games, apps.
  3. Hardware needs software to work, and software needs hardware to run on.

Use it for: Class 3 computer lessons on hardware and software and sorting computer things into two groups.

Worked example: 🧩 Is a web browser hardware or software? → software

  1. A web browser is a program that opens websites; we cannot hold it in our hands.
  2. Programs are software.

Check: You can touch the mouse but not the browser ✓

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