Little Man Computer Programming Teaching Pack

Little Man Computer Programming Teaching Pack

Low Level Programming for a model of the Von Neumann CPU

Specification references

Knowledge of Little Man Computer programming is either required for or supportive of the following Computer Science specification references:

OCR A Level
1.2.4 Types of Programming Language - read, write, trace and amend programs written in the Little Man Computer language

Cambridge Assessment International Education AS/A2
CAIE have their own assembly language instruction set which differs from LMC in a small ways. However LMC is a good staring point for learning this slightly more complex instruction set.

Eduqas GCSE
Section 7 The characteristics and purpose of high-level and low-level
languages

OCR GCSE

• 1.1 Von Neumann architecture
• 2.5 Low level languages

Topics covered by this resource

• The LMC instruction set
• Running an LMC program in a simulator
• Working with input and output
• Using the accumulator
• Addition and subtraction with LMC
• Storing and loading values from RAM
• Working with labels for memory addresses
• Using DAT to store data
• Branching
• Writing programs to solve problems in LMC

Contents of this resource

• In-depth presentation on Little Man Computer Programming in .pptx format
• PDF version of the presentation
• Exercises and challenge for students
• Code for all examples in the presentation
• Challenge solution code
• Supplementary LMC programs
• Detailed annotations for may of the LMC programs provided

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