Depending on the track you take, I think that most programs do offer assembly quite early on. I took an x86 assembly class at a local community college, and the

Depending on the track you take, I think that most programs do offer assembly quite early on. I took an x86 assembly class at a local community college, and then a MIPS-based class while doing my B.S. in EE. I did things a little out of order though, so maybe it's easy to accidentally (or intentionally) miss assembly for a while.