2016 Update

Task/Hello-world-Text/MIPS-Assembly/hello-world-text.mips

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-   .data
-hello:  .asciiz "Hello world!"
+   .data #section for declaring variables
+hello:  .asciiz "Hello world!" #asciiz automatically adds the null terminator. If it's .ascii it doesn't have it.
 
-   .text
-main:
-   la $a0, hello
-   li $v0, 4
-   syscall
-   li $v0, 10
-   syscall
+   .text # beginning of code
+main: # a label, which can be used with jump and branching instructions.
+   la $a0, hello # load the address of hello into $a0
+   li $v0, 4 # set the syscall to print the string at the address $a0
+   syscall # make the system call
+
+   li $v0, 10 # set the syscall to exit
+   syscall # make the system call