Lecture Notes on 31 Aug 2011

CPU Instruction Set

* Arithmetic Operations - ADD, SUB, MULT, DIV

* Logical Operations - NOT, AND, OR

* Data Movement - LOAD, STORE

* Control operations - CMP, BR, JMP, RET


Steps in Learning a Computer Language

* Write the Hello World program

* Characterset 

* Variables

* Types

* Operators
    - Arithmetic
    - Comparison
    - Boolean

* Statements

* Conditionals

* Loops

* Methods

* Arrays

* Input / Output

* Class