What is Software?
Software is often described as a set of data and instructions that tells your computer to perform a specific task or an action. This is often done through the use of coding and the use of certain programs. Software is the digital portion of a computer the physical portion is called the hardware. In this instance think of cooking, where the data is the ingredients and the instructions is the recipe. Software is often considered as having two main types,:
System software
Spplication software.
System software acts directly on the hardware. Going back to the kitchen analogy, you can consider hardware to be like your kitchen and the system software gives you access to all of the tools in your kitchen. Application software runs off of your system software. Application software creates a program that fulfills a need for the end user. For instance if the end user wants a cake, the application software takes care of everything required to make that cake.
There are other kinds of software including middleware which helps programs communicate between each other. Driver software which is considered a part of system software and allows you to use other parts of Hardware attached to your computer for example printers and your mouse and many other types of software.
