On: My Favorite Programming Problem to Teach: Digit Length

[rozab]

You think students should be writing assembly before they even know what a string is?

[unionpivo → rozab]

Basic assembly is easy. (adding numbers, counting, basic comparisons, even basic branching, all you need is 12 or so instructions ).

In our collage, one of the first semester classes we were doing assembly on old Motorola 8 bit, the other one was Java.

people that never programmed before had more trouble with java, than assembler.

[netmonk → unionpivo]

This is exactly what i mean ! :)