Louis Taber
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CIS250
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Introduction to Assembly Language

©Louis Taber, PCC

May 2, 2005

This document is written in a version of LaTeX called HyperLaTeX written by Otfried Cheong. HyperLaTeX uses Leslie Lamport's LaTeX, a document preparation system, Donald E. Knuth's TeX, a typesetting program, and the FSF emacs text editor.

• 1 CIS250 Class Information
• 2 Syllabus
• 2.1 Catalog Description
• 2.2 Description:
• 2.3 Performance Objectives
• 2.4 Course Outline
• 2.5 Course bank note
• 2.6 Textbooks
• 3 Attendance and Grading Policy
• 3.1 Course grade
• 3.2 Grading Scale
• 3.3 Attendance
• 3.4 Y Option
• 3.5 Labs
• 3.6 Math/Logic Test
• 3.7 Midterm
• 3.8 Final Exam
• 3.9 Team work
• 3.10 Americans with Disabilites Act
• 4 Schedule
• 4.1 Getting started
• 4.1.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.1.2 Notes
• 4.1.3 Lab Assignment
• 4.2 Numbers and Bits
• 4.2.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.2.2 Notes
• 4.2.3 Lab Assignment
• 4.3 Introduction to Assembly Programming
• 4.3.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.3.2 Notes
• 4.3.3 Lab Assignment, Program 2 -- a little math
• 4.4 Flow of Control
• 4.4.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.4.2 Notes
• 4.4.3 Lab Assignment, Fibonacci & Factorial
• 4.5 Bit fields, rotate instructions, and shift instructions
• 4.5.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.5.2 Notes
• 4.5.3 Lab Assignment, Bit fields
• 4.6 Subroutines
• 4.6.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.6.2 Notes
• 4.6.3 Lab Assignment, Subroutines
• 4.7 Pointers and addressing
• 4.7.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.7.2 Notes
• 4.7.3 Pseudo Random Number Generators
• 4.7.4 Lab Assignment, Shell & Bubble Sorts
• 4.8 Structures
• 4.8.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.8.2 Notes
• 4.8.3 Lab Assignment, Structures
• 4.9 Floating Point (Optional/Extra Credit)
• 4.9.1 Reading and Web Sites
• 4.9.2 Notes
• 4.9.3 Lab Assignment, Floating Point
• 4.10 Comparative Architectures
• 4.10.1 Web Sites
• 4.10.2 Notes - Processor types
• 4.10.3 Notes - Performance issues
• References
• Index
• Footnotes