Re: Book on Assembly

randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Jim Carlock wrote:
<randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[BIG snip]

You've often mentioned in the past that students taking an assembly
language/machine organisation course, do so after a course on a high
level langauge. If so, why is it necessary to teach them flow control
constructs like IF, WHILE, FOR etc., again? They would've learned the
semantics of these and more in the previous HLL course.

Would it not be more time efficient to teach them the native
conditional branching instructions and tell them to implement the HLL
control statements with them as intermediate level assignments?

If you've already answered to this question just point me to the post.
I haven't been keeping a close track of this group lately.

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