Computer Science / Unit 1 CS 0010 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Software and the Program
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The idea
Software is the algorithmic side of a computer, and a program is an algorithm written in a programming language so a machine can run it.
In practice
A banking app is thousands of instructions a phone's processor executes on demand.
Where people slip
Hardware without software computes nothing at all — the physical machine waits for instructions.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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