Learning Outcomes What you will know

This page collects together all of the “outcomes” associated with individual modules. Outcomes identify what students will know and be able to do if they master the material.

Computer Architecture

Develop a sense of the historical developments that have led to the computers we have today
Understand the principle of the Von Neuman architecture
Understand the concept of an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)

Referencing modules: Computer Architecture

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Computers and Integers

Master conversions between binary, decimal, and hexadecimal
Be able to do by-hand additions in decimal and hexadecimal
Understand the need for and the representation of both unsigned and signed integers
Know how integers are stored in computers, whether unsigned or signed
Known integer ranges and main patterns of integer encoding in these ranges

Referencing modules: Integers & Computers

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X86 architecture

Understand the history and significance of the X86 architecture

Referencing modules: Computer Architecture

NASM

Understands the basics of assembly instructions mov, add, sub, inc, and dec
Understand Endianness
Be able to trace programs with memory operations and indection

Referencing modules: NASM Basics

Assembly Programming

Be able to understand/trace simple assembly programs

Referencing modules: Data Casting, First NASM Program

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Data size

Understand zero-extension and sign-extension and how to do them in assembly
Understand signed and unsigned values in C and how size extension in C maps to assembly instructions

Referencing modules: Data Casting

Assembly and High-level Languages

Understand some of the relations between high-level programming languages and assembly language

Referencing modules: Data Casting