Speaking as someone who has spent probably 10 years writing assembler: Assembler was difficult in the old days because you would load your code, and it would c

Speaking as someone who has spent probably 10 years writing assembler: Assembler was difficult in the old days because you would load your code, and it would crash, giving no information on what went wrong. These days you can run stuff in a simulator that will print out what changed at every tick. Yes, your attempts will crash a lot and it will take you a long time to write a program that hardly does anything, but that will be true of all the people on the course.