Hardware refers to the physical components of the computer that have physical characteristics such as color, weight and shape etc… Hardware is used to run the software. Some examples of hardware include the hard drive, the motherboard, the video and sound cards, the monitor, the printer, scanner, the keyboard and the mouse. Removable storage's such as USB Flash Drive, CD or DVD Rom are also the examples of hardware. Software is a collection of programs which interface between the user and the hardware. These programs are installed on the computer system which can be games, graphic programs, audio or video player, word or spreadsheet programs and many more. Hardware understands only Binary Data or digits i.e. 0s and 1s in the form of voltage pulses while Software tells the Hardware everything in the form of Binary Data or digits i.e. 0s and 1s only.
