Re: Teaching (and Learning) Assembly Language, Part I

=Randall====================================
This pretty much differentiates category one from category two people
in the article. Category two people have already learned how to
implement generic algorithms into a formal programming language.
Without question, this is requires the *largest* effort associated with
learning how to program in any language, including assembly language.
It's also why most people believe that assembly language is *not* the
best "first language" to learn, because assembly language is not a good
vehicle for implementing (nor learning to implement) most algorithms.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
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You're placing AoA at Cat2 and I'll have to chime in and disagree with
this. I was definitely 'cat1' when I started with AoA and you do a fine
job of teaching the basic programming principles that 'cat2' people are
expected to know.

IMO, you do a better job than some books that are designed for 'cat1.' as
I had read an introductory level Java book and couldn't grasp the concepts
as easily as I was able to do so with AoA and assembly. Now I can pick up
a book on any programming language and immediately understand the
concepts.

In conclusion,
1 - assembly is a great introductory level language, when the
instructional writing is
clear and precise.

2 - AoA is capable of serving Cat1 +

-sevagK


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