[Tutor] OT What's next

[Amadeo Bellotti]

thank you to all I think I'm going to take on C maybe after i learn that
take it to python and implement both at the same time. so
step one choosing what language   - done
step two sites to learn anyone know where i can look up c programming for
linux?

On 11/29/06, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, R. Alan Monroe wrote:
>
> > > Pure assembler on a PC involves a huge amount of work for even
> > > the most trivial task.
> >
> > Some useful assembly tips here:
> > http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm
>
> I never wanted to actually program assembly on the PC, but I did want to
> understand it (actually, I wanted to understand the Intel x86
> architecture, and there's no better way of doing that than learning the
> assembly language for a machine).  I read Jeff Duntemann's "Assembly
> language Step-by-Step,"  http://duntemann.com/assembly.htm , and found it
> very useful, although I didn't actually try any programming.
>
> I'm an old mainframe assembler language hack from way back in the IBM
> System/370 days (although in my last development job, I wrote more in
> machine code than in actual assembler), so I didn't really need or desire
> to do the practical aspects of actually writing x86 code; but I felt that
> would have been a good book to get me there, had that been what I wanted.
>
> A couple of years ago, I took a course in which I built a rudimentary
> computer around an Intel 8031 chip; and when I say "built," I mean built.
> It was a couple dozen components on a breadboard, with about only about
> 2Kbytes of memory, if I recall; I soldered or wire-wrapped every
> connection.  You really learn an architecture when you do that.  not that
> I remember much of it anymore, two years later.  Not a route I recommend.
> I needed a few credits to fill an obscure educational requirement, though,
> and this was a fun way to do it.
>
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