Low-Level Programming

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Explain purposes and uses of overloading, templates, and sub-typing in C++.
• Explain how low-level languages interact with memory using pointers, references, and addresses.
• Summarise how the stack and the heap are used by a C program.
• Summarise the main purposes of compilation, and explain how compilation differs from interpretation.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Write, compile, and execute programs in an embedded device
• Use memory transactions to communicate with devices in an embedded system

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Write and compile programs in a low-level programming language.
• Execute the aforementioned programs both on an embedded devices and on computers more generally.
• Apply testing and debugging techniques to find and fix programming errors.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.