Is not worth learning 6502 much better and even relevant since 6502s are still printed, rather than God-forsaken BASIC?
Besides as I tried as a child and all the magic is hidden behind POKE/PEEK commands, the basic itself is unlike Apple II basic or DOS basic. And with all the peek/pokes it implies going on the assembly level.
I did go on the assembly level for x86 when I was 14 and never regretted it. One of the top coder ppl that I knew started x86 assembly when he was 10-12 and only got into the Java bandwagon when he got in university, meanwhile mixing C and Asm.
I have many other reasons to believe such knowledge is not too hard for children to understand.
If you know x86, then 6502 should be easy... on the other hand, you'd have to be interested in making homebrew for legacy systems because there's nothing really new that uses it.
True. Ppl nostalgize aboutbthe 6502 but it's a PITA. Still i believe the answer toyour question is use a Macro Assembler. To collect dozens of library routines like sort, copies, fills, yoyos, etc. And work at that slightly higher level. I wish did that at the beginning of my career :) but nowadays theyre easy to find.
You know 68k, but 6502 is hard? I always figured it would be the other way around... doesn't the 68k have various MMU/"protected mode"-like stuff? Edit: i could also be confusing it with PPC.
The implication in my riddled-with-typos-and-missing-words comment above was that it seems to be worth learning assembly for the CPU (of any kind), rather than obsolete language which has never had a top reputation. And hat it is within reach for children to do it.
People did use BASIC to teach to children back in the day, but IMHO python and even damn JS is much more suitable for this challenge. I really find little benefit from revisiting C64 BASIC in 2024. That was my point.
Besides as I tried as a child and all the magic is hidden behind POKE/PEEK commands, the basic itself is unlike Apple II basic or DOS basic. And with all the peek/pokes it implies going on the assembly level.
I did go on the assembly level for x86 when I was 14 and never regretted it. One of the top coder ppl that I knew started x86 assembly when he was 10-12 and only got into the Java bandwagon when he got in university, meanwhile mixing C and Asm.
I have many other reasons to believe such knowledge is not too hard for children to understand.