Modules Topics covered in this class.

This page presents the “modules”, or the topics that are covered in this course.

Click on the tile associated with a module to go to a page containing that module’s contents.

1. Computer Architecture

A little history, the Von Neumann architecture, the fetch-execute cycle.

2. Integers & Computers

Conversions between bases, size conversions, overflow

3. X86 & NASM

Introduction to the X86 architecture and Netwide Assembler (NASM)

4. First NASM Program

Create your first program in Assembly Language!

5. Data Size & Arithmetic

Arithmetic in assembly language, carry and overflow bits in signed and unsigned operations.

6. Control Structures

Jumping and branching.

7. Bit Operations

Bit shifts and bit masks.

8. Subprograms

Use the stack to implement subprograms using activation records.

9. Compiling

Introduction to compilation; basic lexers and parsers with ANTLR.

10. Linking & Loading

Object file format, relocation tables and symbol tables, how to link and load.

11. Debugging

How to build a debugger like gdb.