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A machine independent course in processor organization and assembler language programming

Published: 01 January 1973 Publication History

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Over the past three years the University of Scranton has been developing a computer science program. Since we could not hope to obtain the type of equipment, fast processors and compilers which many of the larger schools have, we developed several “canned programs” which could accept and act upon student input and give the student some degree of experience with computers which are not within our financial means.
The heart of this development was a simulator we refer to as the SLIC (Scranton's Little Instructional Computer) processor. We feel this simulator has a different purpose for its existence than some of the others which have been developed. The original purpose and the one on which we are concentrating in this paper was to give students some practical programming experience on “computers” which have different addressing schemes. We feel SLIC met this original purpose with great success. Its most important contribution to date is in the development of our course in Processor Organization and Assembler Programming. In making this course SLIC dependent, we believe we made it machine independent and as a result we feel we give our students a “feel” for computing which transcends the machine we have on campus.

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[1]
Beidler, John A., A Computer Simulator Which Empasizes Addressing Techniques, SIGCSE Bulliten, Dec. 1972.
[2]
Denning, Peter J., Principles of Computer System Organization, SIGCSE Bulliten, vol. 2 no. 3(1970), p. 45.
[3]
Forsythe, Alexandria I., et. al., Computer Science: A First Course, John Wiley and Sons, 1969.
[4]
Knuth, Donald E., The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 1, Addison-Wesley, 1968.
[5]
Stone, Harold S., Introduction to Computer Organization and Data Structures, McGraw, Hill, 1972.

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cover image ACM Conferences
SIGCSE '73: Proceedings of the third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
January 1973
185 pages
ISBN:9781450373753
DOI:10.1145/800010
  • cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
    ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 5, Issue 1
    Proceedings of the 3rd SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
    February 1973
    171 pages
    ISSN:0097-8418
    DOI:10.1145/953053
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Published: 01 January 1973

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