Re:Reverse Engineering for Beginners
by voltagex_ on Friday January 01, 2016 @05:25AM
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I've never quite been able to shake the feeling of being born in the wrong era. I didn't start learning programming til I was 12, and I jumped straight into higher level languages. While I'm thankful for StackOverflow, I've got a bookshelf full of things like Peter Norton's Guide to Assembly just waiting for a spare week or two.
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I sometimes feel I missed things too. For me, it's a better era alignment in that I was writing low level code on the simpler machines. But, I did step away for quite a while doing manufacturing, CAD, and a lot of related things.
All of which were very interesting, but my real love is programming and circuits. So, now I'm back, making progress, loving it, but also feeling a bit out of place.
We are not alone, of that I am sure.
It's what you do with what you have and being open to always learning. Reading Masters of Doom and Making of Prince of Persia, I was around (if a few years younger) during this time but I didn't have the drive these people did until much later. If you have the drive, then you can do great things, regardless of the era.