Hardware, Software, Data, and Instructions

Every computer system is made of hardware, the physical parts you can touch, like a screen, keyboard, or the circuits inside, and software, the programs and instructions that tell the hardware what to do. Data is the information a computer works with, like a saved photo or a typed message, and instructions are the exact, step-by-step directions a program follows to work with that data.

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