Re:Learn C programming and the rest will come
by monocasa on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:19AM
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My SO decided to go to a web dev bootcamp a few years back. Before they went, I taught them 6502 asm so that they'd have some idea of how a computer works under the hood. It seems to have helped, and they were clearly the top of their class.
Albeit it's hard to separate the effects of that from simply living with someone who can talk with you at the end of each day of class.
If I were to go through it again, I'd do it with an MSP430 instead. The 6502's lack of registers that are the same width as the address bus (and therefore the multiple steps of indirection required for full pointers) obfuscated some of the concepts I was trying to convey.
Albeit it's hard to separate the effects of that from simply living with someone who can talk with you at the end of each day of class.
If I were to go through it again, I'd do it with an MSP430 instead. The 6502's lack of registers that are the same width as the address bus (and therefore the multiple steps of indirection required for full pointers) obfuscated some of the concepts I was trying to convey.