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MIPS Assembly Language Programming

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It has a lot of examples and lists of commands. You can learn MIPS straight out from this single book. No need to look elsewhere, this is the only book you'll ever need.

This book in an excellent introduction to Assembly language. What I thought to be very difficult programming language isn't actually such a monster after all.

Just a "warning," the assembly language instruction set here is smaller and the processor architecture is less complex than, say, an Intel x86 processor. However, if you want to get a feel of how Assembly language is, this is definitely a good book.

The book isn't monstrous in pages so that's a plus. What I like about this fact is, I can actually reread the chapter if I don't think I understood it enough.

I gave it 5 stars because although it is not perfect, it suits my needs for information beyond enough.

I could not wait to get this product an am enjoying it very much, it was a very good purchase.

This book is of the lowest quality. The paper used fades out the printing so badly that is it difficult to read in some places. Additionally, the material is covered in a disorganized way. The overall instruction set is not introduced at the beginning of the book in any sort of understandable manner. This is a VERY poorly written book and is most definitely not worth the price.

If you have a little experience with any flavor of assembly, this book will have you up and running with MIPS32 in no time. It's exactly the sort of book that you need if you already know how assembly works and want to learn the MIPS language. It seems a little short, but it covers things quite well and directly.

Topics are addressed in a logical manner, and each topic starts off with basics and moves on to more in-depth issues. Also, the chapters have thought-provoking exercises that really help if you're willing to work them out.

Good discussion on programming style and de facto standards for function calls, returns, and special purpose registers. In addition, the book has great appendices, including a complete description of the entire instruction set, ascii chart, and a list of pseudo-ops with their asm translations.

The book emphasizes the SPIM environment, but I use MARS and have had no problems thus far.

I hope you never have to program in assembly language. Actually, I hope I never have to do it again, but if I do, you can bet I'll refer to this book. It's a very good tool, and it got me through my computer org class.

This is meant for a college course. A little too high level for someone who knows assembly language already and wants MIPS specifics.