TUTOR68: Educational software for the learning of the MC68000 assembly language

Abstract

TUTOR68 is a tool that facilitates the user's transition from theoretical classes to the assembly language programming, allowing the student to put the acquired knowledge into practice, without needing to know any kind of tool, such as assemblers, linkers or simulators. Its power lies, in fact, in the diversity of the ways that the user can interact with it adapting to the preferences and knowledge level of each student/user. It is an application that can also be used for complementing the teacher's explanations with graphical examples. It allows exercises of different difficulty levels to be done, within a fixed time or not, randomly or explicitly selected, exercises about addressing modes or about instruction families. All these possibilities are complemented with a context dependent help system with cross references, a learning and self-assessment course and a calculator which is integrated into the application.