Syllabus
Assignments
Batch file for assembling within a Visual Studio command prompt.
ZIP file with Graphical Windows assembler examples.
ZIP file with Visual Studio C++/Assembler examples.
ZIP file with BIOS/Direct video write examples (16-bit programs).
ZIP file with Floating-point examples.

Useful WWW Links

Schedule
Tuesday	Thursday
Jan 17 1.1 – Introduction to Assembler 1.2 – Assembler History 1.3.1 – Binary Numbers	Jan 19 1.3.2 – Binary Addition 1.3.3 – Integer Sizes 1.3.4 – Hex Integers
Jan 24 1.3.5 – Signed Integers 1.3.6 – Character Representation 1.4 – Boolean Operations 2.1 – General IA-32 Concepts	Jan 26 2.2 – IA-32 Processor Architecture 2.3 – IA-32 Memory Management 2.4 – CPU Components 2.5 – I/O System
Jan 31 3.1 – Basic Elements of Assembly 3.2 – Example: Add 3 Integers 3.3 – Assembling, Linking, Running Programs Debugging using Visual Studio	Feb 2 3.4 – Defining Data 3.5 – Symbolic Constants 4.1 – Data Transfer Instructions
Feb 7 4.2 – Addition/Subtraction 4.3 – Data-Related Operators 4.4 – Indirect Addressing 4.5 – Jump/LOOP Instructions	Feb 9 Lab Exercise
Feb 14 5.2 – Linking to an External Library 5.3 – The Book’s Link Library 5.4 – Stack Operations	Feb 16 5.5 – Defining and Using Procedures 5.6 – Program Design w/ Procedures 6.2 – Boolean/Comparison Instructions 6.3 – Conditional Jumps
Feb 21 6.5 – Conditional Structures	Feb 23 Lab Exercise
Feb 28 Test 1	Mar 2 7.2 – Shift/Rotate Instructions 7.3 – Shift/Rotate Applications 7.4 – Mul/Div Instructions
Mar 7 7.5 – Extended Add/Sub 8.2 – Local Variables 8.3 – Stack Parameters	Mar 9 8.4 – Stack Frames 8.5 – Recursion 8.6 – Multimodule Programs
Spring Break
Mar 21 9.3 – String Procedure Examples 9.4 – Two-dimensional Arrays 9.5 – Searching/Sorting Arrays 10.1 – Structures	Mar 23 10.2 – Macros 10.3 – Conditional Assembly Directives How Assemblers Work
Mar 28 Lab Exercise	Mar 30 11.1 – Win32 Console Programming 11.2 – Win32 Graphical Programming
Apr 4 11.3 – IA-32 Memory Management 12.2 – Inline Assembly Code 12.3 – Linking to C++ Code	Apr 6 Lab Exercise
Apr 11 13.1 – MS-DOS and the PC 13.2 – MS-DOS Function Calls 13.3 – MS-DOS File Calls	Apr 13 14.1 – Disk Storage Systems 14.2 – File Systems 14.3 – Disk Directory 14.4 – Reading/Writing Sectors 14.5 – System-Level File Functions 15.2 – BIOS Keyboard Input
Apr 18 Test 2	Apr 20 15.3 – BIOS Video Programming 15.4 – Graphics using INT 10h 15.5 – Memory-Mapped Graphics 15.6 – BIOS Mouse Programming
Apr 25 Floating Point Numbers	Apr 27 Floating Point Numbers
May 2 Lab Exercise	May 4 Review

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