You don't actually need to use MIX; my course used TAOCP and skipped most of the assembly-level stuff, and everyone did fine just psuedo-coding things. I've nev

You don't actually need to use MIX; my course used TAOCP and skipped most of the assembly-level stuff, and everyone did fine just psuedo-coding things. I've never written a single line of MIX. So, skip the whole half of Vol. 1.