> I would have loved to have been able to learn to program back in the day
> like you. I think having a better understanding of early generation
> programming languages would help not only myself, but students of
> programming as a whole get a grasp on what the hell they are doing!!!...
My classes emphasized a working knowledge of what was under the hood as
well as a good theoretical knowledge of programming that can be applied
to just about any modern language. For example, I had to write a small
compiler for a pretend language to a pretend assembly. I also had to be
able to write programs in that assembly, because otherwise I wouldn't
understand how to compile to it.
This is also why, for several years, I could do binary or hexadecimal
math in my head almost as easily as decimal. I can't do it any more,
though. Maybe I should practice.
> With all the drag and drop crap of today, it makes things easier but it sure
> takes something out of the art as well. I knew people that could use Visual
> Studio to knock out a fairly simple program in C++ but the minute you asked
> them to explain how pointers worked or how hardware and interrupts worked,
> they had not the foggiest notion.
To be honest, I'm pretty fuzzy on how interrupts work. But I know what
they do. Pointers, on the other hand, are cool! So are handles. :-)
--Ben "apparently well educated" D
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