describe the relationship between hardware and software “in laymans” terms?
Answers:
Hardware is tangible, physical, HARD stuff. Like your desktop, your disk-drive, your printer and monitor, your graphics cards, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Software is intangible, nonphysical, it technically doesn't exist. It's programs, games, applications. It's a kind of secret code that hardware (like disks or servers on the internet) tell YOUR hardware about, and then your hardware unscrambles the secret code and voila! Software.
Hope this helped, or at least complicated things.
Other answers:
hardware is actual objects (monitor, modem, etc), software is the programs you run.
Hardware is al the pieces of your computer you can hold in your hands, monitor, computer, mouse, keyboard....
Software are the programs that allow these hardware devices to be useful, Microsoft Windows, Games, Word Processing Programs, and any other cd's you buy for your computer.
Hope that helps :)
Hardware is the hammer.
Software is the book you read on how to build.
Relationship:
Without the hammer you can't build.
Without the book you dont know how to build.