Re: Need C++ tutor for 10th grade student

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Mark J. Dulcey <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>  These days, very few people in the real world program in assembler, at 
>  least outside the embedded design community. Even there, assembler is 
>  diminishing in importance as products move away from 8-bit 
>  microcontrollers and toward much more power 32-bit platforms such as 
>  ARM. On the other hand, learning assembler gives you an understanding of 
>  how computers really work that working in higher-level languages does 
>  not, and it will continue to be important for embedded designers and 
>  operating system designers for some time to come. I think that assembler 
>  would make a great SECOND language to learn for the student who shows a 
>  serious interest in computers and how they work.