CSC270: If you have skipped CSC231

Preparation if you have skipped CSC231

For students who will not have taken CSC231 by the time they enroll in CSC270, some reading and exercises are required. The exercises require having a valid account on Beowulf.csc.smith.edu (a regular CSC111 student account should be fine).

Reading and Assignments

• Chapter 1 in the Art of Assembly
• Chapter 3, Sections 0 to 3.1.2. in Art of Assembly
• Sections 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, and 1.3.5 in Carter's PC Assembly Language.

• Assignments
  • Lab1
  • Homework #1, Problems 3 and optionally 4, only.

• Review of number system
• Addressing modes

• Assignments
  • Homework #2
  • Homework #5

Crash Course

The first week after Spring Break I will organize a 3-hour crash course, one evening. In it, we'll review everything you will have read and worked on during the winter break, and you will get to write a few programs and capture the concept of assembly language.

You'll then be ready for the second part of CSC270 that deals with microprocessors.