What is an example of software?

Answer 1

Software is a set of instructions that tell the computer what to do, and individual computer instructions can be put together in different ways to cause a computer to perform the tasks that the programmer(s) wish to accomplish.

Computer instructions are extremely simple. Individual computer instructions consist of extremely basic commands, such as:

"add the content of register 1 to the content of register 2 and put the results in register 1"

"If the content of register 1 is greater than the content of register 2 continue processing at the location stored in register 3, otherwise continue processing at the at the next memory location"

Different processor types have different instruction sets, requiring that software be customized before it can run on different "platforms" (PC, Apple, Cray...)

Software can be loaded into a computer from many sources, such as disks, memory sticks, internet, to name a few.

Answer 2

Hardware describes any kind of computer equipment that can be physically touched eg. Mouse, keyboard & hard drive While software describes any kind of computer program that run on the hardware and helps it to function eg. Operating system (windows xp, Mac etc), word processor

Answer 3

Surprisingly enough Video Games them self would be considered a software. There are also programing softwares like "andre lamothe-the black art of video game console design."

Answer 4

C++, or Visual C, or Visual Basic, or Visual C++, or Java, or Python, or C, or B, or BASIC