Software is like the instructions you give to a toy robot. When you tell the robot to move forward, turn left, or dance, those are like the software telling the computer what to do. Without these instructions, the robot wouldn’t know how to do anything fun or useful.

Think of software as the recipes you follow when baking cookies. The recipe tells you how much flour, sugar, and butter to use and what steps to follow. Just like that, software is a set of steps that tells a computer how to do things like play a game, show a video, or draw a picture.

Software can also be like a story book. The book contains all the words and pictures, but you need to read it to know the story. Software is the story that the computer reads to know how to do different tasks. It helps the computer understand what you want it to do, like playing your favorite song or printing a picture.