Introduction to MIPS Assembly Language Programming

Reviewed by Ranjidha Rajan, Affiliate Faculty, Metropolitan State University of Denver on 9/1/20

Comprehensiveness rating: 5 see less

The book covers both theoretical concepts and step by step assembly language programming using MARS Simulator. It covers topics like Number representations, MARS IDE,MIPS architecture, Programming using arithmetic and logical operators to assembly programming to arrays, Instruction representations and MIPS memory .

Content Accuracy rating: 5

The information I read was accurate.

Relevance/Longevity rating: 4

Considering new CPU are designed every year there are room for updates. For undergraduate students this is a great book for MIPS programming using MARS IDE.

Clarity rating: 5

The book does seem to provide a good amount of context, programmes and picture demos.

Consistency rating: 4

The book topics are consistent and easy to follow.

Modularity rating: 5

The Author did a great job of dividing concepts and information into required sections.

Organization/Structure/Flow rating: 5

Well organized ,starting from simple topics and scaffolding to complex ones.

Interface rating: 4

There is no issues in navigation. The code examples are nicely presented. Few IDE images are hard to read, I think this is the only way we can include the whole image of the IDE.

Grammatical Errors rating: 5

No errors.

Cultural Relevance rating: 5

The language used for explaining theory is English which is used in most academic books worldwide. There is no accessible issues found. The main constructs are focused on Assembly programming which has no cultural references. Examples taken also have no cultural references as the book is dealing with language of computer processors.

Comments

Adding interactive components, practice questions and test bank will help the students to get better learning experience.

Reviewed by MD TAMJIDUL HOQUE, Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans on 5/21/18

Comprehensiveness rating: 5 see less

Starting from basic information needed for MIPS assembly language programming using MARS IDE, the text covers MIPS arithmetic and logical operators, memory model of MIPS, control structures, recursion, and array, and so on in grater details.

Content Accuracy rating: 5

I could not spot errors - it seems that the proof read was done very well.

Relevance/Longevity rating: 4

There was a lacking for a sharable and good programming guide for students for MIPS programming using MARS IDE. This book fulfills the need.

Clarity rating: 5

The book is well written - specially, in hierarchical manner in terms of difficulty; i.e., it starts showing the basic steps and problem and then gradually dives deeper. This will help students engaged longer while reading the text.

Consistency rating: 5

The book is organized in a consistent manner chapter-wise as well as within the chapter, concept-wise.

Modularity rating: 5

The book is easy to read because it is presenting the text in a hierarchical manner in terms of difficulty. Also, for complex cases, illustrations have been provided.

Organization/Structure/Flow rating: 5

The topic and the text are organizes in a logical and consistent manner.

Interface rating: 5

I don't find any interface issues including the navigation problem.

Grammatical Errors rating: 5

I did not spot any grammatical error.

Cultural Relevance rating: 5

The book has perhaps nothing to do with culture, thus it is non-applicable for this book. It is a good book, thus I am scoring accordingly.

Comments

The illustrations or the drawing could be made looking nicer. I understand it is time consuming - but sometimes simpler figure may provide a bad feeling to the naive students. Perhaps, 3D drawing components in power-point, word or visio could be easily used.