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Re:BASIC at 50 by vanderZwan on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @05:25AM (#7552303)
OTOH, thanks to those graphical calculators a number of those kids will jump straight to Z80 assembly to unlock the true power of their hardware. I still think this is one of the best programming tutorials I've ever read, since it managed to make assembly look easy:

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/268/26877.html

I had no trouble understanding pointers when I had a go at learning C++ later (although I'm sure the experience has left a number of other bad coding habits).

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Re:BASIC at 50 by gamegoblin on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @10:55AM (#7553769)
Indeed. A friend of mine, calc84maniac (Brendan Fletcher) even made an on-calc assembler so you didn't need a computer to write assembly.

The folks over at http://cemetech.net/ are working on a new version of that tutorial you linked, IIRC.

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