It felt like my understanding of pointers was a bit vague until I learned assembly. I think programmers would benefit from starting off with a simple virtual ma

It felt like my understanding of pointers was a bit vague until I learned assembly. I think programmers would benefit from starting off with a simple virtual machine that runs a tiny set of instructions with everything presented cleanly in a visual format which can be inspected and stepped through. The biggest a-ha! moment I've experienced was in my Comptuer Architecture course when it finally clicked how you could build up a bunch of logic gates into a real modern computer.