Prep 9: Week 9 Prep
Text
Read Chapters 10 and 11 in the course text and Section 1 of this week’s studio (the actual Studio activities start in section 2).
Videos
| Video | Description |
| Introduction to Assembly | Humans write in high level languages like C, so how do computers think about code? Welcome to assembly language. |
| Registers | How does assembly language interact with the programs we’ve been writing in C? |
Guide to Assembly Instructions
The documentation of assembly language instructions is extensive. The full manual comprises about 190 pages. Like the Java documentation, no one actually tries to learn all of it, just the portions that are useful to the task at hand.