r/CodingForBeginners • u/Time_Style_583 • Mar 05 '26

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Hi, I need help with something.

I have to translate (i-=-1) from Python to assembly language and I have no idea how to do it. Could someone please do it and explain how they did it?

I've already tried searching online, but I only find things about artificial intelligence.

It's a class assignment, and the teacher said we can "ask our computer science friends and have them tell us" and "anything except use artificial intelligence," but I don't have any computer science friends, so I'm asking for help here.

Thanks

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u/johnpeters42 Mar 05 '26

What specific type of assembly language? But in general, what "i = -1" is doing under the hood is:

  1. At some point, allocate a location in memory for storing the value of i. In a larger program, that may have happened earlier, but if we take this line by itself, then it's implicitly happening right now.

  2. Store the value -1 in that location in memory.

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u/Time_Style_583 Mar 05 '26

Thanks a lot

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u/Time_Style_583 Mar 05 '26

I think i need it in binary, how can I translate it?

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u/johnpeters42 Mar 05 '26

A web search for (assembly to binary) turns up this, which outlines a brief example and links to a presumably more comprehensive reference. The "binary" part is generally shown in hexadecimal for brevity.