Class Notes

These are for my benefit. They tell me what to talk about in class. They are by no means a substitute for:

• Attending class.
• Reading the book
• Taking your own notes.

Expected, i.e. tentative, topics/chapters:

Class notes will be placed here.

• Overview
• Representing Data in a Computer
  • Positive integer binary , hex, and octal
    • Base 10
    • representation.
    • Binary.
    • Hex and Octal
  • Binary Math
    • Addition.
    • subtraction
  • Signed integers
    • Sign Magnitude
    • Two's Complement
  • Characters
    • Parity
    • ASCII
    • Od and byte order
  • Floating Point Numbers
• A first program
  • The program.
  • Code for this section.
• The CPU
  • The CPU
  • Assembling a program
  • Controling the 8 bit CPU
  • Two simple programs.
• Registers/Memory in the x86
  • Registers
  • More Registers
  • Using printf
  • Some Helpful Tools
  • Usign scanf
  • Constants and memory in NASM
  • Code for this section.
• The Intel Assembly Language
  • Introduction
  • mov
  • add, inc, sub, dec
  • Code for this section.
• Conditional Control Instructions
  • Introduction
  • More on Conditional jumps
  • Long jumps
  • Some Problems
  • Code for this section.
• Addressing
  • Addressing
  • Code for this section.
• The Stack
  • Introduction
  • Code for this section.
• Function Calls
  • Background
  • A problem
  • Code for this section.

• A X86-64 cheat sheet.
• The Linux System Calls.