CSCI 360 Schedule of Topics

A printed schedule is always an expression of hope and intention. We shall see what happens.

Blocks of material in the course

• Number systems, hex and binary operations. Documentation standards. Main storage organization. Overflow.

  Reading -- text: 1.1 - 1.7, 4.1 - 4.2, 1.8

• Registers and addressing. Program organization. Implicit addressing. Type RR and RX instructions.

  Instructions: CSECT, DS, DC, END, A, AR, S, SR, L, LR, ST, XDUMP.

  Reading in text: 1.9, 2.1-2.5, 2.9 (pp. 52-3)

• More instructions: C, CR, BC, BCR, XREAD, XPRNT, XDECI, XDECO.

  Reading in text: 2.6-2.8, 4.1-4.2

• PSW. Dump reading. Table processing. Literals.

  Instructions: LTR, LPR, LNR, LCR, M, MR, D, DR, LA, EQU, LTORG.

  Reading in text: 2.9-2.13

• Internal subroutines. More table processing. Address data. Parameter lists.

  Instructions: BAL, BALR, STM, LM.

  Reading in text: 3.2, 3.4-3.6

• More internal subroutines. Referencing the location counter. Character data. External subroutines. Linkage conventions, return values.

  Instructions: ORG, MVC, CLC, MVI, CLI.

  Reading in text: 4.3-4.6, 6.2-6.3

• DSECTs. Zoned and packed decimal numbers. Type X, Z, P data.

  Instructions: PACK, UNPK, AP, SP, CP, AP, MP, DP, SRP.

  Reading in text: 6.5, 5.2-5.4, 5.7

• More packed decimal numbers.

  Instructions: ED, CVB, CVD, EDMK.

  Reading in text: 5.6, 5.8

• More instructions: TR, TRT and EX.

  Reading in text: 8.6, 8.8, 8.6 (pp. 301-302)

• Operations on bits and bytes.

  Instructions: O, X, N (and their relatives), IC, ICM, STC, STCM, TM, CLM, halfword instructions.

  Reading in text: 8.2-8.5, 8.9

• Macros.

  Instructions: MACRO, MEND, MEXIT, MNOTE, AIF, AGO, etc.

  Reading in text: 9.1-9.2

• More macros: system variables, local variables.

  Reading in text: 9.3-9.8.