SimpleASM was created at the end of my first year at Lancaster University. We'd created applications using MIPS assembly, and as a fan of seeing what can be done in browser, I wrote my own "assembly" language that could be interpreted in client-side JavaScript.

I used the GitHub Pro to keep things private at first, and I was using WebStorm, one of the JetBrains IDEs that comes in the Student Developer Pack.

My Final Project

You can see the running website here

How I built it

The stack involved was just client-side JavaScript, initially served from an NGINX test server, but then moved over to a GitHub pages site (it was static, after all). The big issue I encountered was debugging the code when loops were introduced. Obviously, poor interpretation of a loop could result in the browser freezing, and as I wasn't looking to solve the halting problem, this resulted in a lot of restarted browser sessions!

Additional Thoughts / Feelings / Stories

It's been great to revisit this project for the git remote graduation this year. I have a lot of fond memories made when I created it, and even though its not my best work, and I could add greatly to it, including a refactor and much better text processing (this was the first time I'd written any sort of interpreter), I'm pleased with what I came up with.