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Concept Hardware and Software The concept of hardware and software is very simple in the computer. A computer system is made of two parts- Hardware and Software. Hardware All physical parts of the computer can be said as hardware of the computer. For example, all the input and output devices from the parts of the computer. If we think of computer as a living being, then the hardware would be the body. Since the computer hardware is a part of a machine, it can only understand two basic concepts: 'ON' and 'OFF'. The 'ON' and 'OFF' concepts is called binary. Computer software was developed to tell the computer hardware what to do. Software The computer hardware cannot think and make decision on its own. The hardware needs a software to instruct what to be done. A program is a set of instruction that is arranged in a sequence to guide a computer to find a solution for the given problem. The process of writing a program is called programming .