Wait, I forgot one... Frogs... the movie had nothing to do with Frogs really... The cover made it look so cool with a leg sticking out of a frog's mouth, so, naturally, I assumed it was about giant frogs. Nope, no frogs here. Well, there were frogs, but they didn't really have anything to do with the... plot. Don't bother watching it...
As one who absolutely loves bad movies, I can't believe no one has mentioned Zarkorr! the Invader or Kraa! The Sea Monster. Take one part man in obvious rubber monster suit, a dash of poorly designed miniture sets for the ahem... monster... to destroy, and a director that is absolutely certain that his monster movies are the best ever conceived by man. I actually highly recommend these movies for their comedic value... I couldn't stop laughing!
I would also recommend The Item... independant film with people gliding around on Segways complete with "Woosh" sound-effects... Don't miss it!
Seed People is another movie that is sure to please. It is the collective theory of my friends and I that the movie was funded by several people who worked at Dunkin' Donuts for a day. During the few hours they worked, they stole several containers of glaze that was used in a... violent... glazing in the movie.
In all seriousness, I loved these movies. I could go on and on about great bad movies... But this is about BAD movies... If I really have to recommend a bad film that I couldn't even sit through, it would be Dead Creatures. Despite getting a 5.2 on IMDB (what are those people thinking!), the movie appeared to have no plot, I don't even think the characters had names, and Dr. Mitten Piston (don't ask!)... What's up with that?!?? The movie was so awful, we had to watch it in fast forward and make up our own dialog... Try it, it's fun!
I have done a little programming in x86 assembly and I must say that it has given me an exelent understanding of how the processor works. I think it's very neat. I also find programming in assembly fun! Yeah... I'm crazy. I agree. The person who said put your brain into a blender and pour it back into your head was right... You'd have to be nuts to WANT to program in assembly for normal tasks. Well, I'm nuts =) WEEEEEEE!
But anywho, to answer your question, use the internet... It's invaluable. Fire up good ol' Google and start searching for x86 assembly or x86 ASM. There are plenty of resources out there including lists of opcodes: what they do, how to use 'em, interrupts, even lists of ASM->machine code translations... Just in case you ever wanted to know that 26D26DFF is shr byte [es:di-1],cl. Take a look at NASM (http://www.cryogen.com/Nasm) if you are looking for an assembler... It's free and works nicely =) There is huge list of interrupts (http://www.pobox.com/~ralf, plus a Windows program, http://www.via.nl/~dms/freeware/rbilviewer/, to read the lists and display them all pretty).
Hope this helps. (No URLs have been checked, but I doubt they've changed)
I'm about to enter my second year of college at a local branch campus (Penn State, New Ken)... I chose the school because it was small, thus, giving teachers the ability to direct their lessons towards 30 or so kids, rather than going to the Penn State main campus, where one might expect some rather large (900+ students) classes. The idea of being a number at a larger college did not appeal to me, although I will be headed there for my last two years.
In any event, my limited experience has lead me to believe that college is only slightly different from high school. The differences are obvious too... First, like someone else pointed out, teachers don't really care. They are there to teach, and you should be there to learn. If you don't care, neither do they. On the other hand, most of the teachers seem very willing to help any way they can and will spend time to answer questions you have privately. Things might be different at a larger campus, however...
Second, definitely don't be over confident (or under confident!). I had an economics class during the night for half a semester that, up to the first test, I already knew from high school. I assumed that, since I got a 100% on the first test without studying, I wouldn't have to pay attention in class, let alone study. My next two tests didn't go well (50% and 52% respectively). I put a good deal of effort into studying for the last test and managed a high 90%, bringing my final grade to a C+. I made similar mistakes in physics and calculus, although not quite as bad because my tests were spaced much further apart in those classes, which gave me time to realize I didn't know the material.
Thirdly, you will meet people from everywhere and they will all have a story to tell. My friend and I decided that we were going to meet a new person every day at college... We held pretty true to that and I'm a much happier person because of it. It doesn't matter what you were like in high school... who liked you, who didn't. College is completely different with different people... There was never a day that went by in college that I was lonely. My time between classes was spent studying with friends, or just chilling and wasting our time away. I formed study groups for classes that I needed a little extra help in and those helped tremendously. There was a very noticable difference in my grades when I studied with a group of friends as opposed to when I tried to wing it myself. My friends and I chose a place to meet, usually a place open all night, like Kings (a local restaurant) or Dunkin' Donuts, or someone's house/apartment (Penn State New Ken is a commuter college... I'd say at least 95% of the students drive from home to school)... We spent just about as much time studying as we did chatting and pissing the night away. Studying is an IMMENSLY boring activity and if it weren't for BS'ing with my friends half the time we were "studying", I would have fallen asleep on the books long before accomplishing anything.
So to sum things up a bit: Don't be afraid of college... Just be sure to pay attention in your classes, do your homework (even if the teacher doesn't collect/grade it... believe me, it helps! I would NOT have made it through calculus 2 without doing my homework), and get things done in a timely manor... Don't procrastinate too long. Any chance you get to work on bigger assignments should be used as such so later, when you decide you are ahead of schedule, you can blow it off a little for some much needed friend-time. Rather than cramming all the work into the last couple days before it's due at which point you won't be able to relax at all and you will get stressed out. And lastly, make friends... LOTS of friends. Don't think you can strike up a conversation? HA! "Hi. I'm so-and-so... Where are you from?" You'd be surprised how easy it is.
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Wait, I forgot one... Frogs... the movie had nothing to do with Frogs really... The cover made it look so cool with a leg sticking out of a frog's mouth, so, naturally, I assumed it was about giant frogs. Nope, no frogs here. Well, there were frogs, but they didn't really have anything to do with the... plot. Don't bother watching it...
As one who absolutely loves bad movies, I can't believe no one has mentioned Zarkorr! the Invader or Kraa! The Sea Monster. Take one part man in obvious rubber monster suit, a dash of poorly designed miniture sets for the ahem... monster... to destroy, and a director that is absolutely certain that his monster movies are the best ever conceived by man. I actually highly recommend these movies for their comedic value... I couldn't stop laughing!
I would also recommend The Item... independant film with people gliding around on Segways complete with "Woosh" sound-effects... Don't miss it!
Seed People is another movie that is sure to please. It is the collective theory of my friends and I that the movie was funded by several people who worked at Dunkin' Donuts for a day. During the few hours they worked, they stole several containers of glaze that was used in a... violent... glazing in the movie.
In all seriousness, I loved these movies. I could go on and on about great bad movies... But this is about BAD movies... If I really have to recommend a bad film that I couldn't even sit through, it would be Dead Creatures. Despite getting a 5.2 on IMDB (what are those people thinking!), the movie appeared to have no plot, I don't even think the characters had names, and Dr. Mitten Piston (don't ask!)... What's up with that?!?? The movie was so awful, we had to watch it in fast forward and make up our own dialog... Try it, it's fun!
I have done a little programming in x86 assembly and I must say that it has given me an exelent understanding of how the processor works. I think it's very neat. I also find programming in assembly fun! Yeah... I'm crazy. I agree. The person who said put your brain into a blender and pour it back into your head was right... You'd have to be nuts to WANT to program in assembly for normal tasks. Well, I'm nuts =) WEEEEEEE!
But anywho, to answer your question, use the internet... It's invaluable. Fire up good ol' Google and start searching for x86 assembly or x86 ASM. There are plenty of resources out there including lists of opcodes: what they do, how to use 'em, interrupts, even lists of ASM->machine code translations... Just in case you ever wanted to know that 26D26DFF is shr byte [es:di-1],cl. Take a look at NASM (http://www.cryogen.com/Nasm) if you are looking for an assembler... It's free and works nicely =) There is huge list of interrupts (http://www.pobox.com/~ralf, plus a Windows program, http://www.via.nl/~dms/freeware/rbilviewer/, to read the lists and display them all pretty).
Hope this helps. (No URLs have been checked, but I doubt they've changed)
I'm about to enter my second year of college at a local branch campus (Penn State, New Ken)... I chose the school because it was small, thus, giving teachers the ability to direct their lessons towards 30 or so kids, rather than going to the Penn State main campus, where one might expect some rather large (900+ students) classes. The idea of being a number at a larger college did not appeal to me, although I will be headed there for my last two years.
In any event, my limited experience has lead me to believe that college is only slightly different from high school. The differences are obvious too... First, like someone else pointed out, teachers don't really care. They are there to teach, and you should be there to learn. If you don't care, neither do they. On the other hand, most of the teachers seem very willing to help any way they can and will spend time to answer questions you have privately. Things might be different at a larger campus, however...
Second, definitely don't be over confident (or under confident!). I had an economics class during the night for half a semester that, up to the first test, I already knew from high school. I assumed that, since I got a 100% on the first test without studying, I wouldn't have to pay attention in class, let alone study. My next two tests didn't go well (50% and 52% respectively). I put a good deal of effort into studying for the last test and managed a high 90%, bringing my final grade to a C+. I made similar mistakes in physics and calculus, although not quite as bad because my tests were spaced much further apart in those classes, which gave me time to realize I didn't know the material.
Thirdly, you will meet people from everywhere and they will all have a story to tell. My friend and I decided that we were going to meet a new person every day at college... We held pretty true to that and I'm a much happier person because of it. It doesn't matter what you were like in high school... who liked you, who didn't. College is completely different with different people... There was never a day that went by in college that I was lonely. My time between classes was spent studying with friends, or just chilling and wasting our time away. I formed study groups for classes that I needed a little extra help in and those helped tremendously. There was a very noticable difference in my grades when I studied with a group of friends as opposed to when I tried to wing it myself. My friends and I chose a place to meet, usually a place open all night, like Kings (a local restaurant) or Dunkin' Donuts, or someone's house/apartment (Penn State New Ken is a commuter college... I'd say at least 95% of the students drive from home to school)... We spent just about as much time studying as we did chatting and pissing the night away. Studying is an IMMENSLY boring activity and if it weren't for BS'ing with my friends half the time we were "studying", I would have fallen asleep on the books long before accomplishing anything.
So to sum things up a bit: Don't be afraid of college... Just be sure to pay attention in your classes, do your homework (even if the teacher doesn't collect/grade it... believe me, it helps! I would NOT have made it through calculus 2 without doing my homework), and get things done in a timely manor... Don't procrastinate too long. Any chance you get to work on bigger assignments should be used as such so later, when you decide you are ahead of schedule, you can blow it off a little for some much needed friend-time. Rather than cramming all the work into the last couple days before it's due at which point you won't be able to relax at all and you will get stressed out. And lastly, make friends... LOTS of friends. Don't think you can strike up a conversation? HA! "Hi. I'm so-and-so... Where are you from?" You'd be surprised how easy it is.
Welp, I think that's all I can say. Good luck!