Introduction

This course is about computer organization and assembly languages, specifically for Intel architectures. You might wonder why learning assembly languages. After all, who will write assembly programs these days. Actually, people still write assembly for faster codes (compiler is not as smart as men yet), smaller codes (for devices with limited amount of memory such as mobile devices) and specific architectures (in which there are not even compilers, for example, early GPUs). With these in mind, other than the fundamentals about assembly programming, this course emphasizes on code optimization techniques on writing fast and small codes for specific architectures, here, Intel architectures.

Recent updates

January 8, 2007	Lectures #14 is posted.
December 25, 2006	Final project is announced.
December 25, 2006	Lectures #13 is posted.
December 19, 2006	Homework #5 is updated.
December 18, 2006	Lectures #12 is posted.
December 11, 2006	Homework #5 is posted.
December 10, 2006	Lectures #11 is posted.
December 4, 2006	statistis for midterm is posted.
December 4, 2006	Lectures #10 is posted.
November 27, 2006	Homework #4 is posted.
November 27, 2006	Lectures #9 is posted.
November 13, 2006	Lectures #8 is posted.
November 7, 2006	Homework #3 is posted.
November 6, 2006	Solution and statistics of Homework #1 is posted.
November 6, 2006	Lectures #7 is posted.
October 30, 2006	Midterm exam will be held in room 103 from 10am-12pm on 11/20.
October 30, 2006	Tutorial on writtng MASM using MSVC++ 2005 Express is posted.
October 30, 2006	Lectures #6 is posted.
October 25, 2006	toyasm is updated.
October 23, 2006	Lectures #5 is posted.
October 23, 2006	Homework #2 is posted.
October 2, 2006	Homework #1 is posted.
September 25, 2006	Lectures #2, #3, #4 are posted.
September 18, 2006	Subscribe via this website.
September 18, 2006	Lecture #1 is posted.
May 26, 2006	This webpage is up.