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A place for assembler in structured programming

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 1

Pages 108 - 112

https://doi.org/10.1145/382063.803370

Published: 01 February 1977 Publication History

Abstract

Today, with the thrust being made with structured programming, questions arise concerning the relevance of assembler language code. The purpose of this paper is to defend assembler language programming by showing its relevance and to show how we present the course with a structured programming emphasis.

In the sections that follows, we show the relevance of assembler through two examples of the use of assembler language coding. These examples show two extremes, one involves the development of a theoretical result in mathematics, the other shows the use of assembler in a commercial environment.

Section 3 provides an overview to our approach in the course and how we view the role of assemblers in structured programming. Section 4 illustrates our approach to programming assignments and section 5 describes our approach to evaluating assignments.

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Index Terms

A place for assembler in structured programming
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development techniques
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Macro languages
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
        Assembly languages

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 9, Issue 1

Special issue seventh technical symposium on computer science education

Feb 1977

187 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/382063

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SIGCSE '77: Proceedings of the seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 1977
187 pages
ISBN:9781450374071
DOI:10.1145/800104
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