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I had an ex-electrical engineering girlfriend who studied assembly as a core part of her degree. I think the low-level is covered more than you think, not in so

by meric 11y ago

I had an ex-electrical engineering girlfriend who studied assembly as a core part of her degree. I think the low-level is covered more than you think, not in software engineering but in electrical engineering where the focus is on building platforms (transistors, CPU, Ram, hardware and assembly) to enable software to be written.

Demiurge 11y ago
Yes. Even part of my pretty standard CS curriculum included electrical engineering (breadboard to ALU), assembly (self hosted interpreter/vm) and language theory (C clone) courses. With a bit of time I or my classmates could build a computer from scratch, but the relevancy of this to my day job of many years as web and scientific programmer has been zero to minor. I think it gives me enough insight into many phenomena, but the lower, the less it is relative to making stuff actually happen for people. We are building up.