As a representative of kids and kid-ettes, that stuff is actually still taught. In addition to writing malloc and a proxy, we (I'm a TA) have labs that are des

As a representative of kids and kid-ettes, that stuff is actually still taught. In addition to writing malloc and a proxy, we (I'm a TA) have labs that are designed to force students to disassemble and reverse engineer compiled code. Further, this is actually a required course for Computer Science majors and Electrical and Computer Engineers at my school. We're keepin' it real http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/assignments.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/assignments.html