COMSC 260 - Assembly Language Programming/Computer Organization
- Recent Professors
- Samuel Johnson, Ryan Melvin, Caterina Pentcheva, Lan Lo, Paul Hrycewicz, Faramarz Mortezaie
- Recent Semesters
- 2027SP, 2026SP, 2026FA
- Class Size
- Not published
- Difficulty
- 5.6Moderateout of 10
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisite
- COMSC 165 - Advanced Programming with C and C++ COMSC-165 or equivalent
- 2027SP Sections
- View 2027SP sections of COMSC 260
- Transfers To
- CSU
- Description
- This course covers the basics of machine architecture, machine language, assembly language, operating system interface, and interfacing with high-level languages. Topics include data representation, instruction representation and execution, addressing, indexing, macros, subroutine linkages, storage and time efficiency issues, interrupt descriptor tables, virtual memory, cache memory, and dynamic address translation.
- Usually Held
- Tue 4:05pm–7:10pm