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Re:Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to... by reikonomusha on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:36AM (#14719181)
I would claim that most folks who have a reasonable understanding of fundamental computer architecture and assembly are those who actively learned it. Folks who have just used a compiler for everything, in my experience, rarely actually develop the understanding innately. Compilers still have this "magic" element associated with them.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to... by adamnemecek on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:41AM (#14719230)
It's not either or, it's a dance. You make a hypothesis in your head, verify it with a compiler. If result matches your hypothesis, move on. If not, investigate.

For me personally, I thought I kinda knew assembly until I started using https://godbolt.org when I realized that I really didn't know assembly. This site helped a lot of other people as well. Note that all it does is make the process of discovery faster. But it's a tool in the same category as a calculator.

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