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Hardware
The term hardware describes the physical parts of your computer which you can physically touch or see such as your monitor, case, disk drives, microprocessor and other physical parts.

Software
The term software describes the programs that run on your system. This includes your computer operating system and other computer programs which run. Software is written in a computer language (such as Basic, C, Java, or others) by programmers. The computer language is in a text format and can be read by a person although if you do not understand the structure and rules of the language you may not understand it very well. Once a program is written, an operation is performed on it which is called compiling. Compiling is the process of changing the textual written language into a binary language which can be understood by the computer.

Writing these text files and converting them to computer readable files is the way operating systems and most application programs are created.

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Software are programs that the computer uses to perform its tasks. Hardware are physical parts of the computer, they include keyboard, mouse, monitor, processor,harddisk. Hardware is the physical devices like a motherboard, hard drive, graphics card etc
software is a general term for the programs that make them do stuff.