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| Developwebsites 2003-10-29, 11:24 pm |
| for some reason comp sci students are forced to learn ASM.
It is the lowest prog lang used, but is it good to learn if you
are a tech? If so, what do you do with it for those who use it?
If you could get down to the system and manipulate it, isnt
that dangerous? if someone using ASM were to foul up something,
how would a tech repair it?
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| Computer sciense has not that much in common with computer repair. As a tech
you can't really change much with exception of what is in the BIOS. As an
engineer developing new curcuits for a controller, Shure!
But to make some damage to your computer you have to physically replace a
chip. You can not use Assembler for that.
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"Developwebsites" <developwebsites@aol.com> wrote in message
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> for some reason comp sci students are forced to learn ASM.
> It is the lowest prog lang used, but is it good to learn if you
> are a tech? If so, what do you do with it for those who use it?
> If you could get down to the system and manipulate it, isnt
> that dangerous? if someone using ASM were to foul up something,
> how would a tech repair it?
>
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| Barry Watzman 2003-10-30, 9:24 pm |
| The reason for learning assembly language is not to be able to write
assembly language programs (although that can be useful). The real
reason, however, is that only by programming in assembly language will
you ever learn HOW A COMPUTER REALLY WORKS. I find it incredible that
not 5% of technicians and programmers really know what goes on inside a
processor. Understands what a register and flags and PSW are;
understand what really happens when an interrupt occurs; understands
just how low-level the instructions actually executed by the CPU really
are; understands about segmented addressing; understands recursive and
shared code. And the only way that you truly come to understand that
stuff is by actually programming it, right at the binary level.
Now let me turn your question around: Is it useful for a computer
science major to understand how a computer really works?
Developwebsites wrote:
> for some reason comp sci students are forced to learn ASM.
> It is the lowest prog lang used, but is it good to learn if you
> are a tech? If so, what do you do with it for those who use it?
> If you could get down to the system and manipulate it, isnt
> that dangerous? if someone using ASM were to foul up something,
> how would a tech repair it?
>
>
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