Picking on one small point: My experience of teaching is that a little knowledge of assembler is a dangerous thing when it comes to modern programming. Writing

Picking on one small point: My experience of teaching is that a little knowledge of assembler is a dangerous thing when it comes to modern programming. Writing good code for a modern amd64 processor with deep pipelines and vector instructions has almost nothing to do with teaching simple assembler. Students often get the Idea they should do things like limit the number of local variables they use, not realising c or c++ compiles will turn their code in Single Static Assignment almost straight away.