Lecture: How a Code Snippet is Translated into Assembly Instructions

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Lecture Description

How a Code Snippet is Translated into Assembly Instructions, Store, Load, and ALU Operations, Assembly Optimizations for 4-Byte Addresses, Context-Insensitive Code Translation, Overriding the 4-Byte Default in Assembly Instructions, Translating a For Loop into Assembly, Using Branch Instructions and the PC Register, Pointer/Array Arithmetic in Assembly, Unconditional Branch Instructions (Jumps), How a 4-Byte Assembly Instruction is Encoded in Memory

Course Description

Topics include: Advanced memory management features of C and C++; the differences between imperative and object-oriented paradigms; the functional paradigm (using LISP) and concurrent programming (using C and C++); brief survey of other modern languages such as Python, Objective C, and C#.

Prerequisites: Programming and problem solving at the Programming Abstractions level. Prospective students should know a reasonable amount of C++. You should be comfortable with arrays, pointers, references, classes, methods, dynamic memory allocation, recursion, linked lists, binary search trees, hashing, iterators, and function pointers. You should be able to write well-decomposed, easy-to-understand code, and understand the value that comes with good variable names, short function and method implementations, and thoughtful, articulate comments.

from course: Computer Science III: Programming Paradigms