If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. – Sir Ken Robinson
(Updated February 18, 2025) Table of Contents What is and IDE? Hello World A Bigger Example What is an IDE? An Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, is typically a graphical user interface with an editor, compiler, debugger, and much more at your fingertips. One possible IDE combination is Visual Studio Code with x86 and x86 … Read More “Chapter x86_64-1 – The IDE” »
(Updated February 18, 2025) Table of Contents Starting Out With Newer Tech The Intel x86 References Starting Out With Newer Tech Hopefully, you’ve arrived here after explaining the first half of this textbook, which is based on the MOS 6502. If you skipped ahead because this is really what you’re interested in, don’t worry. You … Read More “Chapter x86_64-0 – Where to Begin?” »
(Updated February 18, 2025) signed8bit.asmLoad Workspace ; This is the start of the 8-bit library. define CHROUT $ffd2 define LZF $30 ; This is test code for the 8-bit printing LDY #0 NUMLOOP: LDA NUMBERS,Y STA $31 ; LSB PHA ; SAVE JSR S8OUT ; PRINT AS SIGNED LDA #7 ; ‘\t’ JSR CHROUT PLA … Read More “Chapter 6502-A – 8-, 16-, and 32-bit Printing.” »
(Updated February 18, 2025) Table of Contents Overview Printing Numbers – Part I Bigger Numbers Bigger Math Printing Numbers – Part II Overview In previous chapters, we’ve glossed over details on numbers and mathematics. This is simply because math on this CPU is hard. Remember that all we can do is add. Even subtraction is … Read More “Chapter 6502-6 – Numbers and Math” »
(Updated February 2, 2025) Table of Contents Overview The First Regex The Better Regex – Part I The Better Regex – Part II Conclusion Overview Overview As we build the program to score and print a series of marks representing a complete game, we should also consider how to measure whether the scoring is legitimate. … Read More “Bowling Regex” »
(Updated November 20, 2024) Overview The process of tokenizing a BASIC program converts the text to a sequence of compressed codes mixed with ASCII (PETSCII) characters. The idea is to have the “compiling” of the code completed and work within an intermediate representation that: Reduces the space occupied by the program. Speeds interpretation of the … Read More “C64 BASIC Tokenizing” »
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import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.util.Scanner; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.PrintWriter; public class Project { public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException { String line, rev; int x; Scanner inFile = new Scanner(new FileReader(“Word Salad”)); PrintWriter outFile = new PrintWriter(“copy.txt”); while ( inFile.hasNext() ) { line = inFile.next().toUpperCase(); //System.out.println(line); rev = “”; for ( x = line.length() – … Read More “Project 5 Showcase” »
import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.Random; public class Project4 { static Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in); public static void main(String[] args) { Random rand = new Random(); char player, computer; String choices = “BPS”; String computerChoice = “”, playerChoice = “”; int numGames, game, wins = 0; System.out.println(“Hello! This is the game of Boulder, Parchment, Shears!”); System.out.println(“How … Read More “Project 4 Showcase” »
String number; int radix; for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) { number = args[i].substring(0,args[i].indexOf(':')); radix = Integer.parseInt(args[i].substring(args[i].indexOf(':') + 1)); System.out.println(number + " base " + radix + " is " + Integer.parseInt(number, radix) + " base 10."); } if(args.length>0){ //Checking for input from user for(String input:args){ //Loop to parse //Find the numerical … Read More “Variations on a theme – 111 – Project 1” »