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From: Joe_Luzzi.FULLERTON_CC@QMBRIDGE.CALSTATE.EDU (Joe Luzzi)
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Subject: Re- HLLs vs. Assembly
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Date: 5 Apr 91 19:39:40 GMT
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                                                               Time: 10:24 AM
                                                               Date: 12/21/90
Subject:  Re: HLLs vs. Assembly


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>>Don't feel sorry for my students.  They come out of that class with a major
>>prejuidice against assembly removed.  By the time they're seniors they've
>>written a *lot* of C and Ada code, yet very little assembly.  They are
>>excited by the end of the quarter.  A good number of them exclaim happily
>>that "Gee, I really learned assembly language this quarter, it's nowhere
>>near as bad as I thought it was."  To bad *YOU* never had this experience.

I agree 100%!  Assembly is basically touched upon and that's it in most
Computer Science curriculums.  I wish I had the opportunity Randy's students
had.  

I think Computer Science students shouldn't graduate without adequate assemlby
coding experience.  I'm not saying to drop the emphasis of High Level
langauges, but to add more classes requiring assembly coding.  Programmers who
know assemlby, I believe, are better programmers overall since they are more in
tune with how the computer works.  

I'm not looking down upon high level languages, they're great!  I'd just like
to see Computer Science curriculums consider Assembly language just as
important as Pascal, C, or Ada. 

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