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This Fourth edition of this broad-based and comprehensive text covers all programming levels - from introductory through advanced. Both inexperienced readers and experienced programmers can learn and benefit. Appropriate for both two and four year schools. This revision retains the practical, hands on approach while and updating the text to include the latest changes in Assembly Language and Operating Systems. Salient Features Trains readers to: understand the hardware of the personal computer. understand machine-language code and hexadecimal format. understand the steps involved in program assembly, link, and execute. write programs in assembly language to handle the keyboard and screen, perform arithmetic, convert between ASCII and binary formats, perform table searches and sorts, and handle disk input and output. trace machine execution as an aid in program debugging. write macro instructions to facilitate faster coding. link separately assembled programs into one executable program.