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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Assembler curricula, was Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
Summary: Similar class at UH
Message-ID: <1248@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 06:32:04 GMT
References: <6341@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <60859@sun.uucp> <474@m3.mfci.UUCP> <834@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Organization: a flat near the Montrose, Houston, Tx.
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In article <834@nmtsun.nmt.edu>, caasnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams) writes:
> In article <2601@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> wes@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
> >Why not teach machine organization concepts right alongside HLL programming?
> >Certain topics, such as loop control and number crunching,could be programmed
> >in both an HLL and in assembly.  This would give the beginning student both
> >a better understanding of the machine and some rudimentary skills in assembly
> >language.
> 
> 	Here at New Mexico Tech there was (1 year ago) a course which
> basically fit the above description.  It was called CS221, Computer
> Organization, with an associated lab (CS221L), Systems programming.
> The class taught the basics of computer and CPU organization, and
> taught the PDP assembly language.  The lab taught C, and the students
> each used it to write an assembler subset for our VAX 11/750.


There is (was?) a similar class at University of Houston.  It was based
on PDP assembly, and the students wrote various utility type programs
while getting a rough view of how utilities/commands work w/in a given
os and hardware.

There is a compiler/operating systems class pair that, as I understand
it, has the students write a simple compiler one semester and a simple
operating system the next.  I could have been lied to, however. :-)




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