How do Computers Work?

How do Computers work? have you even wonder how does it operate by its own machines and stuffs? i also admit that i do wonder how does computer work. but if you think about it. computers are amazing. it can use in such many ways. you can even shop through computers! which is my favorite part. Well I will try and answer this the best that I can.  Basically a computer can consist of two broad categories, hardware and software and the way a computer works is between these two working together. I will outliine them both briefly below.

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To accomplish a task using a computer, you need a combination of hardware, software, and input.

• Hardware consist of device, like the computer itself, the monitor, keyboard, printer, mouse and speakers.
• Software is the name given to the programs that you install on the computer to perform certain types of activities.
• You provide the input. When you type a command or click on an icon, you are telling the computer what to do. That is called input. 

So briefly: computer hardware is the physical computer that you actually see, this includes: the computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, speakers etc.  Inside the computer is more hardware, such as the hard drive, CPU (central processing unit), motherboard, RAM (random access memory) and more. Software on the other hand is the things that you can't see.  Software is the name given to programs that are installed on the computer, such as Windows XP, Windows 7, Microsoft Word, Adobe Suite and others.  Software includes every program that you download from the internet, and play games with or use to do math problems etc.

So the thing with computers is that the software interprets and controls the computer hardware.  It provides the person using the computer with a visual "link" to the computer.

So for a computer to work, you need both the hardware and the software to be working and setup correctly and also be connecting with each-other correctly.  Too find out what every separate part does then I suggest you read up on the different components.to interpret hardware so that it works with a certain operating system (eg. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac etc.).