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Cool! Assembly has a lot of potential for teaching people the basic concept of a computer program's structure, microcontroller usage, etc etc. But gee, have yo

Cool! Assembly has a lot of potential for teaching people the basic concept of a computer program's structure, microcontroller usage, etc etc. But gee, have you ever tried to teach someone how to program a microcontroller using bare metal assembly? It is not easy. If you tell someone that the GPIO registers start at memory address 0x48000000 and give them a list of what each register's bits do, they will look at you like your head just grew an extra head. These sorts of abstractions are probably a way, way better idea...

pjmlp 9y ago
It is all a matter of teaching. Back in the day, Z80 Assembly programming felt natural to a 10 year old version of myself. I guess what we are missing are updated versions of these kind of books. https://www.atariarchives.org https://www.atariarchives.org
- Steve44 9y ago
  > It is all a matter of teaching I think there is more to it than that. I started in the early 1980s when every computer booted straight into a programming environment. The manuals which came with them described their languages with examples and there was a large publishing industry supporting these books. The computers were relatively simple, within a couple of hours of typing something in you'd be seeing results. Current computers and consoles are immensely more complicated and do not lend themselves to exploring. They also have a much wider audience who just want to turn it on and play rather than tinker. There are still people with an open and exploration mind, they are playing with Raspberry's etc. I expect. We used to be the majority of computer owners, the numbers may have dwindles a little but we're now swamped by regular users.