Is a mouse hardware

Answer 1

Yes, a mouse is hardware.

Think of hardware as the parts you could physically touch, inside or outside of the computer. You could touch a mouse. So what can you touch? A keyboard, a hard drive, a monitor... Those are all physical things that you can hold in your hands, so they are all hardware.

Software are the parts you couldn't touch. They are the codes, programs, apps, and data, the parts that "think" to tell the computer what to do.