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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by LeeHwang on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:25AM (#14107185)
This is great, but does any one have any gentler intros ? I'm trying to teach low-level programming to one of my junior devs. She graduated from a boot-camp school and is struggling a bit.

EDIT: Thanks for the replies. Alot of good links.

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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by Diggie1225 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:52AM (#14107429)
I am taking a great coursera course on the very basics of a computer (uses a hardware simulator to build the chipsets necessary to build a computer). It is VERY intro-friendly and gentle, including teaching basic Boolean algebra. Also can be very hands on, which is what I really like about it. Might be a good fit!

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer/

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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by vram22 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:31AM (#14107819)
Not sure if it exactly matches what you are looking for, but mentioning a few anyway, in case they are of help:

- For concepts as well as execution, from the bottom up (hardware level etc.), I've read that nand2tetris is good. It gets mentioned once in a while here on HN. Check hn.algolia.com for threads about it.

- any good book on assembly language programming. I've looked at Randall Hyde's book earlier, seemed good. There is also another which I think is good, by an American professor called Paul Carter, IIRC.

Googling should find all of those and more.

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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by tyingq on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:24AM (#14107740)
Maybe one of the beginner friendly microcontrollers would be an easier intro?

Like an arduino kit (https://www.arduino.cc/) or ARM mbed (http://mbed.com/).

Either one is fairly low-level (C, or C like), but has plenty of beginner-friendly documentation. And if they progress beyond that, moving down to assembler is supported for both.

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