Good vs. Evil
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Liza Pendray
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14? You need to add 1 or subtract one from the current number and state a "reason" to do so.
The reason can be anything though
13. Yes indeed. This is a Forum Game @Liza Pendray; what I always do is have a quick read of the first post on the first page of the thread, to see what its all about and how to play. Its good fun!
13 For reference, this is a program that should print hello world.
Code:
;Copyright (c) 1999 Konstantin Boldyshev <[email protected]>
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;"hello, world" in assembly language for Linux
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;to compile:
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;nasm -f elf hello.asm
;ld -s -o hello hello.o
section .text
global _start ;must be declared for linker (ld)
_start: ;tell linker entry point
mov edx,len ;message length
mov ecx,msg ;message to write
mov ebx,1 ;file descriptor (stdout)
mov eax,4 ;system call number (sys_write)
int 0x80 ;call kernel
mov eax,1 ;system call number (sys_exit)
int 0x80 ;call kernel
section .data
msg db 'Hello, world!',0xa ;our dear string
len equ $ - msg ;length of our dear string
Code:
print "Hello, world!"As you can see, you need a lot more instructions when writing assembly. And this just writes some simple text in the terminal.
12. For once, you posted something I actually took time to understand. (not meant as an insult)
11 This class is going to be great. The study group for the class has had people post already that we should "[not] listen to $prof about not using for loops. At all. He's been doing it for years, and he's been wrong for years." Given the "don't program based on what the language provides" was in the part where he was having us implement an iterative algorithm recursively, I think it ties into this hatred of for loops.
10 my teachers also shove recursion into everything right now, but considering we are going to learn functional programming (I think) and we where learning about functions, that makes sense.
We also had the fun of working with functions that get functions as parameters and return a new one. Again, makes sense considering the topic, but I'm not sure how I would feel if I saw those functions in a real codebase.
9 It makes some sort of sense given the lecture was on systematic loop design, but he still ignores a lot of possibilities if they don't fit his "one right way". As far as the class goes, in my case it's a data structures class that starts off as a Java class, because the prereq is a python course, and they can't assume knowledge of Java.