I'm fine working with surface-mount stuff, I can solder it by hand, it's not actually as hard as it looks. Bank switching seems like a pain to manage though. I

I'm fine working with surface-mount stuff, I can solder it by hand, it's not actually as hard as it looks. Bank switching seems like a pain to manage though. I wish I had learned this stuff in school. I majored in CS, and we didn't go any lower level than C++.