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Your computer is “deaf and dumb” — every app is teaching it a new trick

Your guide: Miss HiraExplains computers with chai, cricket and your phone.

The problem

The most powerful computer in the world, left alone, cannot even open a folder on its own. Generally speaking, a computer is a “deaf and dumb” machine — it cannot do anything of its own accord unless it is told to.

We instruct it to do some number calculation, create a document, or run an engineering application, and so on. This instruction is the driving force behind every task — a program, or software.

Software falls into two categories: system software, which manages and monitors the computer's own resources, and application software, which is built to accomplish a given task for the user.

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