COMP135

Students will acquire the fundamentals of computer architecture from a programmer's perspective by learning assembly language, the interface between hardware and software. Designed for students with previous high-level programming language experience, this course enables the students to write code that provides a good, intuitive model of the computing environment. Concepts covered will be data representation, memory organization, the instruction cycle, addressing modes, exception handling and interrupts. Programs will be developed using the popular INTEL based architecture. (Prerequisites: COMP-171 or approval of instructor)