Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Quiz 1 - 4 plus Appendices A and B

We will have a double-weight one-hour quiz at the beginning of our meeting on Tuesday, March 4. Topics:

  • integer representation and other Appendix A topics that we covered
  • assembly "by hand," i.e., what would the result in a machine-language listing be? and what does machine language in a given listing mean?
  • all topics discussed in architecture, memory organization, registers, etc.
  • basic assembly language statements for arithmetic and logic
You should understand all of the program examples in Appendix B and Chapters 1 to 4. In the exercises, you should be able to answer all of the following readily:

  • A-1 to A-8, A-11, A-12, A-13
  • 1-1, 1-3, 1-4
  • 2-1, 2-2, 2-4, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9
  • 3-3, 3-4, 3-78, 3-12, 3-15, 3-16
  • 4 all
There are a few topics we haven't discussed even a little, such as floating-point representation and some Pentium internals. Don't worry about those.

You may have all the hand-written notes you like, provided that you produced them yourself. Keep in mind that a passing grade is 65, and that passing averages on both programs and quizzes are required to pass the course.

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