Question

What is the difference between data and information and also between data and programs?

Answer 1

Data are simply facts or figures — bits of information, but not information itself. When data are processed, interpreted, organized, structured or presented so as to make them meaningful or useful, they are called information. Information provides context for data.


Program is instruction what CPU executes, data is information that program uses for customization and storage of how the program is supposed to carry those instructions.Program memory: Where the application is stored. ... A PC also has data memory and program memory.