Teaching Children Programming and Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:01:51PM -0400, jing wrote:
> Yes, it gave you mnemonic names which really helps to keep track of
> what the ops generally are.  But you have to track variables yourself
> by knowing which addresses to write to.  As painful as this sounds, I
> personally believe this was one of the best learning experiences in my
> early education because it made pointers crystal clear.

It would certainly teach you just how awful the x86 and DOS are and were
respectively.  Even in protected mode x86 is quite awful to work with
and its way nicer than real mode.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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