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Software and the Program

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Software is the algorithmic side of a computer, and a program is an algorithm written in a programming language so a machine can run it.

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A banking app is thousands of instructions a phone's processor executes on demand.

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Hardware without software computes nothing at all — the physical machine waits for instructions.