UIST "St. Paul the Apostle"

Course objectives and learning outcomes:

On completion of this course, students should be able to: 

• Have a clear understanding of the difference between high and low level programming languages, their respective advantages and disadvantages, 

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the fundamental relationships between basic elements of computer architectures, machine-level languages and high- level languages, 

• Write programs in assembler language (with an emulator of the 8086 processor, and then with NASM) and include them in high level language programs, 

• Install and use a Linux distribution on their computer, 

• Install and use a virtual machine on their computer.