Overview
- Readers will very quickly learn how to begin programming in assembly language
- Provides a hands-on approach that will enable readers to learn about the computer architecture of the Intel 32-bit processor, and the relationship between high-level and low-level languages
- Illustrates the key concepts of each chapter with complete programs, chapter summaries, and exercises, supported by further material in the Appendices
- Updated second edition featuring new material on floating point operations
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This concise guide is designed to enable the reader to learn how to program in assembly language as quickly as possible. Through a hands-on programming approach, readers will also learn about the architecture of the Intel processor, and the relationship between high-level and low-level languages.
This updated second edition has been expanded with additional exercises, and enhanced with new material on floating-point numbers and 64-bit processing.
Topics and features: provides guidance on simplified register usage, simplified input/output using C-like statements, and the use of high-level control structures; describes the implementation of control structures, without the use of high-level structures, and often with related C program code; illustrates concepts with one or more complete program; presents review summaries in each chapter, together with a variety of exercises, from short-answer questions to programming assignments; covers selection and iteration structures, logic,shift, arithmetic shift, rotate, and stack instructions, procedures and macros, arrays, and strings; includes an introduction to floating-point instructions and 64-bit processing; examines machine language from a discovery perspective, introducing the principles of computer organization.A must-have resource for undergraduate students seeking to learn the fundamentals necessary to begin writing logically correct programs in a minimal amount of time, this work will serve as an ideal textbook for an assembly language course, or as a supplementary text for courses on computer organization and architecture. The presentation assumes prior knowledge of the basics of programming in a high-level language such as C, C++, or Java.
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Book Title: Guide to Assembly Language
Book Subtitle: A Concise Introduction
Authors: James T. Streib
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35639-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35638-5Published: 24 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35639-2Published: 23 January 2020
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 344
Number of Illustrations: 577 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Processor Architectures