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Introduction

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• Dictactic disclaimer
  • The CS255 course is not primariry about assembler programming

  • Assembler programming is used to understand the programming constructs in a high level programming language

  • Therefore:

    We will only use signed integer data types in the course. Signed integers use the 2's complement code to represent their values          byte data type: uses an 8 bits 2s complement code short data type: uses an 16 bits 2s complement code int data type: uses an 32 bits 2s complement code We will not use floating point data type nor floating point operations in CS255         We will not use string data type nor string operations in CS255

    Including floating point/string data type and their operations in the CS255 course material will lengthen the course content considerably and provides very little new knowledge on the programming constructs