# Overview

This page serves as a quick quide into p8086.

Comments are the way you use in most languages:

1. Single line: // comment
2. Multi-line: /*...*/

Available types are db, dw, string. You can use var or int to represent a word as well.

dw a;
db b = 43H;
var v = 5;
db ch = 'C';
int foo = 94;
string str = "Hello!";

Constants are numbers, characters and string literals. These can only be used as rvalues in assignments.

You can assign values to variables using an arithmetic expression.

a = 2;
b = 2+5/6*7+(23-45); //messy, but works

These expressions can be used inside conditional statements like in if statements.

if(a == 0){
  //a is zero, yay!
}
while(34 <= b+a){
  //hmm...
}

More information can be found on the statements page. p8086 supports if else, while and for loops

More can be added here but enough for now. Head on to the next page to learn more!

Sample programs written in p8086 can be found in the online compiler.