Computer Science Basics: Hardware and Software — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hardware and software to terms. You've probably heard of at one point or another
2. 0:04The odds are high that you use both on a daily basis, whether it's with your smartphone or personal computer
3. 0:10Let's take a deeper. Look at what these two things are and why they're important
4. 0:15hardware is any element of a computer that's physical this includes things like monitors keyboards and also the insides of devices like
5. 0:24microchips and hard drives
6. 0:27Software is anything that tells hardware what to do and how to do it including computer programs and apps on your phone. So video games
7. 0:36Photo editors and web browsers are just a few examples
8. 0:41Hardware and software are very different from each other, but they also need one another in order to function
9. 0:46Let's look at an example of this using a smart phone in this case
10. 0:51The hardware would be the physical phone itself and the software would be its operating system and its apps
11. 0:57If we were to take away the software we would just have a dead phone in our hands it wouldn't be able to make calls
12. 1:04Text or go online because it's not receiving any kind of instructions on the other hand
13. 1:09Let's say we have no hardware. Meaning there's no actual phone if all we have are the programs
14. 1:15We just have a bunch of instructions, but nothing to give those instructions to
15. 1:19So the big picture here is that hardware needs software to tell it what to do
16. 1:24But software also needs Hardware in order to act out its directions
17. 1:29Technology will continue to evolve and though we may not be sure of how things will look in say a hundred years this
18. 1:36Combination of hardware and software will be there serving as its foundation
19. 1:46GCF global creating opportunities for a better life