Low Level Programming for a model of the Von Neumann CPU
Specification references
Knowledge of Little Man Computer programming is either required for or supportive of the following Computer Science GCSE and A Level specification references.
OCR A Level
1.2.4 Types of Programming Language – read, write, trace and amend programs written in the Little Man Computer language
Cambridge Assessment International Education AS/A2
CAIE have their own assembly language instruction set which differs from LMC in a small ways. However LMC is a good staring point for learning this slightly more complex instruction set.
Eduqas GCSE
Section 7 The characteristics and purpose of high-level and low-level languages
OCR GCSE
- 1.1 Von Neumann architecture
- 2.5 Low level languages
Topics covered by this resource
- The LMC instruction set
- Running an LMC program in a simulator
- Working with input and output
- Using the accumulator
- Addition and subtraction with LMC
- Storing and loading values from RAM
- Working with labels for memory addresses
- Using DAT to store data
- Branching
- Writing programs to solve problems in LMC
Contents of this resource
- In-depth presentation on Little Man Computer Programming in
.pptxformat PDFversion of the presentation- Exercises and challenge for students
- Code for all examples in the presentation
- Challenge solution code
- Supplementary LMC programs
- Detailed annotations for many of the LMC programs provided