What is Computer ?
A computer is a electronic machine or device that performs processes, calculations and operations based on instructions provided by a software or hardware program. It is designed to execute applications and provides a variety of solutions by combining integrated hardware and software program components.
A computer is made up combine of multiple parts and components that facilitate user functionality.
A computer has two primary categories ?
- Hardware
- Software
Hardware
Computer hardware that houses a computer's processor, memory, storage, communication ports and peripheral devices.
Software
Computer Software is a set of programs, which is designed to perform a well-defined function. A program is a sequence of instructions written to solve a particular problems .
There are two types of software
- System Software
- Application Software
System Software
- Operating System
- MS Windows (Operating System)
- MacOS (Operating System)
- Linux (Operating System)
- iOS (Operating System)
- Android (Operating System)
- CentOS (Operating System)
- Ubuntu (Operating System)
- Unix (Operating System)
- Linux (Operating System)
- Windows Phone OS (Operating System)
- Device Drivers
- BIOS Driver
- Firmware
- Computer Peripherals
- Embedded Systems
- UEFI
- BIOS
- Utility
- Norton Antivirus
- McAfee Antivirus
- WinRAR
- WinZip
- Piriform CCleaner
- Directory Opus
- Razer Cortex ...etc
Application Software
- Word Processors
- MS Word
- Apple iWork-Pages
- Corel WordPerfect
- Google Docs ...etc
- Database Software
- MS Access
- FileMaker
- Mongo DB
- MySQL ...etc
- Multimedia Software
- Adobe Photoshop
- Windows Movie Maker
- VLC Media Player
- MX Player ...etc
- Web Browsers
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Safari ...etc