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Experiential Learning


                           #IPO Cycle

                   Talk to your friend over call. Write Input, Process and Output as steps to talk to her/him.


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                      COMPUTER SOFTWARE


                 A computer is an electronic machine. It cannot work by itself. A computer needs instructions
                 to do anything. These step-wise instructions are called software. Software tells the computer
                 what to do.

                 Software works like a manager between computer hardware and humans. So, we can say that
                 the part of a computer that we cannot see and touch is known as software.

                 For example, you play a movie on the computer from a pen drive. You can touch the pen drive
                 but you cannot touch the movie. This movie is the software and the pen drive is the hardware
                 which stores the movie and keeps it safe.

                 There are two types of software: System software and Application software.


                                                                Software




                                      System Software                           Application Software


                 System Software

                 Software that controls and manages all the activities of a computer system is called system
                 software. The system software is like a manager who manages a computer system.

                 When we switch on a computer, the first thing that system software does is to prepare the
                 computer for you to work on it. It loads important files so that you can work and run the
                 application software. This software is called the  operating system. Most commonly used
                 Operating System is Windows OS.

                 There are many versions of Windows OS available like Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and
                 Windows 11. Windows 11 is the latest version.










                                                                                                Windows 11



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