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@@ -19,18 +19,47 @@ The MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) Assembly language
 .data # Section where data is stored in memory (allocated in RAM), similar to variables in higher level languages
 
   # Declarations follow a ( label: .type value(s) ) form of declaration
-  hello_world .asciiz           "Hello World\n" # Declare a null terminated string
-  num1: .word 42                # Integers are referred to as words (32 bit value)
-  arr1: .word 1, 2, 3, 4, 5     # Array of words
-  arr2: .byte 'a', 'b'          # Array of chars (1 byte each)
-  buffer: .space 60             # Allocates space in the RAM (not cleared to 0)
+hello_world .asciiz "Hello World\n"         # Declare a null terminated string
+  num1: .word 42                            # Integers are referred to as words (32 bit value)
+  arr1: .word 1, 2, 3, 4, 5                 # Array of words
+  arr2: .byte 'a', 'b'                      # Array of chars (1 byte each)
+  buffer: .space 60                         # Allocates space in the RAM (not cleared to 0)
 
   # Datatype sizes
-  _byte: .byte 'a'              # 1 byte
-  _halfword: .half 53           # 2 bytes
-  _word: .word 3                # 4 bytes
-  _float: .float 3.14           # 4 bytes
-  _double: .double 7.0          # 8 bytes
+  _byte: .byte 'a'                          # 1 byte
+  _halfword: .half 53                       # 2 bytes
+  _word: .word 3                            # 4 bytes
+  _float: .float 3.14                       # 4 bytes
+  _double: .double 7.0                      # 8 bytes
 
+  .align 2                                  # Memory alignment of data, where number indicates byte alignment in powers of 2. (.align 2 represents word alignment since 2^2 = 4 bytes)
+
+.text                                       # Section that contains instructions and program logic
+.globl _main                                # Declares an instruction label as global, making it accessible to other files
+
+  _main:                                    # MIPS programs execute instructions sequentially, where this will be executed first
+
+    # Let's print "hello world"
+    la $a0, hello_world                     # Load address of string stored in memory
+    li $v0, 4                               # Load the syscall value (indicating type of functionality)
+    syscall                                 # Perform the specified syscall with the given argument ($a0)
+
+    # Registers (used to hold data during program execution)
+    # $t0 - $t9                             # Temporary registers used for intermediate calculations inside subroutines (not saved across function calls)
+    # $s0 - $s7                             # Saved registers where values are saved across subroutine calls. Typically saved in stack
+    # $a0 - $a3                             # Argument registers for passing in arguments for subroutines
+    # $v0 - $v1                             # Return registers for returning values to caller function
+
+    # Types of load/store instructions
+    la $t0, label                           # Copy the address of a value in memory specified by the label into register $t0
+    lw $t0, label                           # Copy a word value from memory
+    lw $t1, 4($s0)                          # Copy a word value from an address stored in a register with an offset of 4 bytes (addr + 4)
+    lb $t2, label                           # Copy a byte value to the lower order portion of the register $t2
+    lb $t2, 0($s0)                          # Copy a byte value from the source address in $s0 with offset 0
+    # Same idea with 'lh' for halfwords
+
+    sw $t0, label                           # Store word value into memory address mapped by label
+    sw $t0, 8($s0)                          # Store word value into address specified in $s0 and offset of 8 bytes
+    # Same idea using 'sb' and 'sh' for bytes and halfwords. 'sa' does not exist
 
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