Practice - Execution Process of Programs
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Practice Questions
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What does the opcode in an instruction define?
💡 Hint: Think about what tells the machine what to do.
What role does the accumulator play in execution?
💡 Hint: It's where intermediate results are kept.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the opcode in an instruction indicate?
💡 Hint: Think about what the code is commanding the machine to do.
True or False: The accumulator only stores data permanently.
💡 Hint: Remember the purpose of the accumulator in processing.
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Challenge Problems
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Design an instruction sequence to read five integers from memory and calculate their average, storing the result in a specific memory location.
💡 Hint: Think about how to keep track of the sum and the number of integers processed.
Propose a method to add thousands of numbers without writing each instruction manually, discussing how you could abstract the instruction set.
💡 Hint: Consider how loops work and how to incorporate them with address manipulations.
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