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MIPS assembly

This course is about one architecture, MIPS, and about writing programs for it.

If you have never written assembly before, read Assembly basics first. It is a short tour of the ideas every assembly language is built on: what a register is, what memory is, how a program branches and how it keeps a stack. This course assumes you have those and goes back over the same ground slowly, in MIPS.

Getting started with MIPS
The 32 registers and their names
.data, .text and directives
Memory, little endian and alignment
Words, halves and bytes
The MIPS instruction set
Loads, stores and immediates
Comparing two numbers
Branch on compare
Loops
Arithmetic, logic and bits
Arrays and strings
The stack and $sp
jal, jr, and the course calling convention
Floating point and Coprocessor 1
syscall in the Playground
The bitmap display and keyboard registers
Exceptions and coprocessor 0
Moving values around
Variables in memory and constants
Maximum and unsigned distance
Fill an array with a guarded counting loop
Sum of an array
The largest element
Byte length of a string
Reverse a string in place
Multiply and divide with hi and lo
Masks, shifts, popcount, and leading zeroes
A subroutine with its arguments in registers
Stack arguments and a stack frame
Recursion: factorial and Fibonacci
Bubble sort
A jump table
Binary search
A 2D array
Print a string
Read two numbers and print their sum
Print a number in any base without help
Drawing shapes on the screen
A bouncing ball
Move a square with the keyboard
The snake game
Flappy bird