What is Software?

Software: Software is a set of instructions that instruct a hardware how to process the data and generate the required information.

There are two types of software.
i) Operating Software : Operating software operates the computer hardware. It creates an environment all computer hardware to access the computer. Example : Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 95, Windows ME, MS Dos etc.
ii) Application Software : Application software performs special tasks. Example : Microsoft Office, Tally etc.


Windows: Windows is an operating system software. An operating system performs as two task.
a) Provide interface between user and system.
b) Control the resources of a computer.


Compiler Software:
 This software converts human language to machine language and vice-versa. Compiler software compiles the whole program from first to last line and executes the program.


Interpreter :
It also converts human language to machine language. An interpreter first read each line of the program and convert them from source code to object code. Interpreter executes the program line by line.


Assembler :
It converts assembly language into the machine language.

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