Task #$1$ Select This Text To Go To The External MARS website. Read the website to learn about what MARS is and how it works. Once you have done that, look for the section of the website that provides information about how to download and run MARS. You will see there is more than one option to choose for running MARS. Choose the option that works for your particular computer and operating system.

Note: Task #$1$ is the primary task for this lab. Task #$1$ must be performed completely before moving on to the other tasks of this lab. It may take some trial and error to get the MARS to work. Task #$1$ is meant to have you experience downloading a virtual computer architecture environment based and get it to work $$ something often required by assembly language programmers to perform programming.

Task # $2$ Select This To Read The Documentation. This documentation is meant for you to get a sense of the types of instructions, directives, registers, and other MIPS I architecture information $($This is a PDF file$)$

For any given computer architecture, you should be able to read documentation like this to get a sense of the physical components of the architecture, and how to use assembly language to write programs for the architecture. Though this class focuses on the MIPS I architecture, you should become used to reading documentation like this for any computer architecture that describes the architecture$$s physical components and the architecture$$s assembly language commands.

This is not a complete list of all the commands of the assembly language, but it will give you a feel for some of the most fundamental assembly language commends.

As you are reading about the commands, pay close attention to how the commands use certain operands. Be able to distinguish between operands that are literal values and operands that are registers.

Task # $3$ Watch A Tutorial Video Segment About MARS And Using MARS and run an assembly language program

Watch the following tutorial video segment:

Start At $1$:$37$ End At $4$:$30$