> "..Congratulations on making progress toward your overhyped programming certification. It sure isn't computer science...
I still dont follow why you call what i said was taught to me as a "overhyped programming certification". It was well rounded course with papers on Software Engineering, Data Structures, Object Oriented anlysis and design approach.
You just cant throw broad analogies and hope to put your point across.
My curriculam had one paper on assembly lagnuage and IMHO it is quite sufficient to teach you about the instruction set of processors etc. Although asm programming isnt absolutely essential if you end up being a Java programmer but will help you comprehend the finer nuances eg, the way compiler optimises, the different addressing mechanisms..etc.
Also the most prevalent viruses of the pre-internet era were written in asm they are really a great example of extent of non-traditional things you can achieve with asm.
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> "..Congratulations on making progress toward your overhyped programming certification. It sure isn't computer science... I still dont follow why you call what i said was taught to me as a "overhyped programming certification". It was well rounded course with papers on Software Engineering, Data Structures, Object Oriented anlysis and design approach. You just cant throw broad analogies and hope to put your point across.
...and why is it so?
My curriculam had one paper on assembly lagnuage and IMHO it is quite sufficient to teach you about the instruction set of processors etc. Although asm programming isnt absolutely essential if you end up being a Java programmer but will help you comprehend the finer nuances eg, the way compiler optimises, the different addressing mechanisms..etc. Also the most prevalent viruses of the pre-internet era were written in asm they are really a great example of extent of non-traditional things you can achieve with asm.