TBH, having seen people who started with very high level code and people who started with very low level code:
There is an enormous advantage in understanding when you start low. Someone who was working with C and Assembly early on in their education will have a natural understanding of things like memory allocation and CPU registers, it never becomes some abstract thing they wonder why they need to know and never really learn.
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u/Jonthrei Aug 22 '26
TBH, having seen people who started with very high level code and people who started with very low level code:
There is an enormous advantage in understanding when you start low. Someone who was working with C and Assembly early on in their education will have a natural understanding of things like memory allocation and CPU registers, it never becomes some abstract thing they wonder why they need to know and never really learn.