S3:E4 Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Addressing Modes

This episode, titled "Assembly language," offers an introductory guide to low-level programming It explains that assembly language utilizes mnemonics to represent machine code instructions, which are then translated by an assembler into machine code for execution. The document outlines various addressing modes—immediate, direct, indirect, and indexed—and illustrates these concepts using the Little Man Computer (LMC), an imaginary model with a limited instruction set designed to simplify understanding of how computers process data and instructions. Finally, it highlights the differences between programming in the early days, referred to as "coding," and modern high-level languages, while detailing how machine code instructions are structured.