Read Chapter 8 of How Computers Really Work
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 50/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Domain
- content
Research direction
Start with Chapter 8 of How Computers Really Work and complete exercise 8-1, Factorial. Use the class channel for blockers; the stated objective is to write a factorial program in Assembly. There is no submission step, and the Raspberry Pi project is explicitly out of scope.
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Description
Link to the coursework
https://nostarch.com/how-computers-really-work (but CYF can lend you a copy)
Learning Objectives
- Write a program to calculate the factorial of a number in Assembly
Why are we doing this?
We will be thinking again about the capacity and limits of real computers. Read Chapter 8 and complete exercise 8-1: Factorial. You do not need to complete the associated Raspberry Pi project.
Maximum time in hours
3
How to get help
Share your blockers in your class channel
https://curriculum.codeyourfuture.io/guides/getting-help/asking-questions/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zp6wfcw#z4jh3qt
How to submit
There's no submission step. You will need these concepts in the next module.
- Dominant language
- Python
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- Forks
- 60
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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